Hello all,
I’ve been going through some of my long ignored feature branches and found a few that might have promising code.
Is there any interest in being able to specify (include/program/module) paths in terms of zip archives? At one point I wanted to be able to provide an entire application as a single file, and wrote support for various paths inside of zip files. The code I wrote is about 7 years old, but it was/is used and I’d be happy to fix it up if no one has major objections.
The code in question provides support for including zip files as part of paths for -I, -P and -M:
pike -M /path/to/some.zip
or
pike -M /path/to/some.zip/folder
As well as the idea of a properly formatted archive with well know directories for modules, includes and programs:
pike -A /path/to/some.zip
where some.zip looks like:
include/* modules/*
And implicitly sets -I, -M and -P to include/, modules and / respectively.
Any thoughts, opinions, suggestions?
Bill