TODO@7a0aafe2fe87
TODO
Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:38:26 -0500
- author
- brett
- date
- Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:38:26 -0500
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- trunk
- changeset 59
- 7a0aafe2fe87
- parent 52
- cf191f957fd0
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- 23eb5e0a6665
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[svn] Find self-extracting archives by their file magic only, not extension/mimetype.
The problem with using extensions/mimetypes for this is that it net way too
many false positives. Files ending in .com, .bat, etc. would cause the
user to be prompted for recursive extraction. This makes that problem go
away, and it means that error messages when the user tries to extract a
non-archive .exe will probably be more useful, too.
To do: * Add ability to list included archives for recursive extraction Things which I have a use case/anti-use case for: * Support pisi packages (http://paketler.pardus.org.tr/pardus-2007/) * Steal ideas from <http://martin.ankerl.com/files/e>. * More consistently raise and handle exceptions. Things that are generally good: * Better tests. * Better error messages. Things I think might be good but can't prove: * Consider having options about whether or not to make sane directories, have tarbomb protection, etc. * Use zipfile instead of the zip commands. * Processing from stdin. * shar support.
