INSTALL@4d88f2231d33
INSTALL
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:46:20 -0400
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- brett
- date
- Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:46:20 -0400
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[svn] Change all the license notices from GPLv2 to GPLv3.
Instead of checking the archive contents, figuring out what to do, and
doing it, instead we now always extract the archive to a private directory,
and then shuffle around the contents appropriately. I expected this to be
a bigger win than my benchmarks have borne out, but I'm sticking with this
strategy because it provides a cleaner separation of responsibilities
between the extractors and the archive type handlers, and also I have to
believe it's a much better way to handle bigger archives -- since we're now
reading it once and not twice.
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
