Re: More namespacing woe ...

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Vladimir Vukicevic <vladimir helixcode com> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:16:21PM -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com> writes:
> > 
> > > > What details? As I have already mentioned gnome-vfs uses "tar:" where
> > > > the moniker in bonobo uses "untar:". Similarly for "gzip:"
> > > > vs. "gunzip:". As far as I can tell, both use a syntax like
> > > > 
> > > > file://host/some/path/file.tar#tar:/path/inside/archive
> > > 
> > > I asked you to provide a detailed description.  If the spelling for
> > > the `gzip:' token is different or the arguments are different that the
> > > monikers it will not help to have them unified.
> > 
> > gzip works in the analogous way:
> > 
> > file://host/some/path/file.gz#gzip:
> 
> Well, this is confusing -- is the request to gzip it, or to gunzip it?

It's to access the contents of a compressed file. If you read from it,
you are uncompressing; if you write to it, you are compressing as you
write. I don't see how there is any ambiguity.

 - Maciej