[Tilesathome] Change proposal in uploaded files

Matthias Julius lists at julius-net.net
Mon Jul 2 14:18:54 BST 2007


"Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog at gmail.com> writes:

> On 7/2/07, Celso González <celso at mitago.net> wrote:
>
>> -Use of tar.gz instead of zip. The processing time is faster and uses
>> less cpu, the diffs in size are not significant

Or just .tar for that matter.  If you include a text file in the
upload you can gzip it gzip it before.

>
> The problem with .tar.gz is that you can't control where the files end
> up. While unpacking a tar.gz file you can't tell tar to ignore any
> paths, so it will go create any directories... ZIP has a -j option to
> prevent this.

If the .tar file is created from $workdir/*.png or
$workdir/*.dir/*.png it won't contain any path information.

Matthias





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