[gephi-dev] Adding TAR.GZ archives support

[Mathieu Bastian]

Hello,

> I was looking at source codes and what I found is following:
>
> 1. zip is supported because of native zip/jar support included in
> NetBeans platform
> 2. it supports currently only jar/zip, because of native java support
> for zip format (classes like ZipInputStream, ZipEntry, ...)
> 3. tar format simply packs more files into 1 file adding some metadata
> stored in 512kB store & gzip adds additional compression
> 4. java automatically supports gzip format too (GZIPInputStream,
> although it is more low level)
>
> => I think the patch adding tar.gzip will be quite easy to implement.
>
> Mathieu, am I right about upper notes?

Yes, completeley correct, and yes we support only one file in it,
without folder.

> Does current support for jar/zip supports only one file in zip?
> Where should the patch be merged into?
>
> //Martin
>
>
> 2010/11/26 Sébastien Heymann <sebastien.heymann at gephi.org>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The Gephi File Importer can handle ZIP files. I need to add the support of
>> TAR.GZ archives.
>>
>> Could you point me some doc / where should I look at inside the source code?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Seb
>>
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