Re: [Help-smalltalk] Compressing modules

[Paolo Bonzini]

> > It's already there -- it's called VFS and it uses shell scripts or 
> > external programs as the "abstraction layer".  I don't know if it has 
> > bitrotten, and for sure having instead a module that wraps zlib or bzip2 
> > would be a good idea.
> Yes, i've seen VFS (a superficial view of it), but maybe it'is better to
> have a module instead of dealing with console.
>   
You can extend VFS with new classes that don't use the shell -- the 
structure is there, what is needed is the modules, which as I said is a 
good idea.  In fact, the Midnight Commander for example does not use 
shell scripts for "tar" files.

Paolo