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From: "Gordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] container maximum


> On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 20:23, Toad wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 04:59:30PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I think the 1 MB limit is okay.
> > >
> > > See for example yesterday's TFEE container. It is about 400 KB and it
> > > consists of some 3 HTML and 1 CSS that sum up to nearly 2 MB!
> >
> > This seems like a reasonable argument to allow compressing individual
> > files. Anyone want to code it?
>
> I could easily be tempted.
>
> However, note that I have never even looked at the Freenet source code
yet, so
> unless there is a reasonable amount of source code documentation somewhere
in
> a tangible form somewhere (which I don't think is likely due to the
shortness
> of the development cycle at the moment, but I'd love to be proven wrong)
(no,
> this does not include inside people's heads! :-p), it is likely that I
would
> slow down other developers already on the ball with my questions about the
> current code base in the short-ish term.
>
> If this is acceptable, then please drop me an email off list with the
> development "protocol" information (i.e. CVS access, patch submission
> procedure, environment hints (e.g. use Forte instead of vi because of XYZ
> features that make things easier), etc.).
>
> > > But I must admit that single-file zipping would be a nicer way to do
> > > it.
>
> I am more in favour of tar.bz2 format. It would be measurably more compact
for
> compressible data, with little speed penalty to speak of.

As a windows user I am not too fond of that idea though....

/N

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