Re: RFP: CompoundStorage document

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 20:01, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 18:47, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> > I cant see why someone want to use tar files to store compound
> > documents. We have special formats (OLE2/libefs) which do a much better
> > job for compound documents (incremental save, encryption, compression,
> > transactions).
> 
> This library, already mentioned by Michael Meeks, seems promising. I'd
> like to know what others think.
> 
> zipios is a library that could do the job, however, I can't really
> compare it's features/quality other that what you tell us :)
> 
> featurewise, it seems to me like it would be wise to use this library.
> How can it handle a zipfs? I think that it shouldn't bee too hard to
> extend it to handle zip files as well (or maybe it does already).

The design goal for libefs/OLE2 was support for compound documents, i.e.
incremental save and transactions. zip file and tar files are unable to
provide those features.

- Dietmar