INSTALL@039dd321a7d0
INSTALL
Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:52:36 -0400
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- brett
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- Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:52:36 -0400
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[svn] If an archive contains other archives, and the user didn't specify that
they wanted recursion, prompt them to find out what they want to do.
This required some changes in the way prompting for one-item archives works
too, because if an archive inside another archive is itself a one-item
archive, things get really weird. I'm still not really sure what the right
policy is for that.
I'm not wild about this code. It feels like programming a bunch of special
cases. I need to figure out a better way to abstract it. I'm thinking
some kind of Policy class....
x Installation Documentation ============================ Requirements ------------ To run x, you'll need Python_ 2.4 or greater. You can also use Python 2.3 if you separately install the `subprocess module`_. .. _Python: http://www.python.org/ .. _`subprocess module`: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~astrand/popen5/ x calls out to different external tools to support different archive types. Most of these are already installed on most GNU/Linux systems, so you probably won't have to worry about these too much, but just for completeness, the exact requirements for each format are as follows: tar archives tar zip archives unzip, zipinfo cpio archives cpio rpm archives rpm2cpio, cpio deb archives ar, tar, zcat Files compressed with gzip or compress zcat Files compressed with bzip2 bzcat Installation ------------ x is just a simple script, making it easy to stash wherever you need it. Just copy ``scripts/x`` to a location that's convenient for you. If you'd like to install the program system-wide, you can run the following as root or equivalent:: python setup.py install
