[tex-live] volunteer to implement lcab compression?

[Thomas J. Kacvinsky]

What kind of compression is needed?  I've been on a C/Perl XS kick
lately, so perhaps I can get to this...

Tom

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Karl Berry wrote:

> For TL 2004, we want/need to use .cab files instead of .zip files on the
> inst (compressed) CD, because .cab is what the Microsoft installer
> supports, and Fabrice intends to replace TeXSetup with the MSI.  At the
> same time, it is convenient to do the infrastructure rebuilds on our
> Unix machines.
>
> There's a program lcab, formerly cablinux, for Linux, which can write
> cabinet files.  There are two implementations, one in C and one in Perl.
>   http://www.geekshop.be/rien/lcab/
>
> However ... it does not support writing of compressed cab files, which
> is, of course, crucial.  Several algorithms are allowed, ZIP is probably
> the easiest.  I wrote the author a few days ago but he has not
> responded.
>
> Can anyone here volunteer to add compression support to lcab?
> Like, soon?  Either in the perl version or the C version, it doesn't
> matter as long as it works :).
>
> Of course it's not a matter of implementing a compression algorithm from
> scratch, there are plenty of libraries and examples out there.  It just
> has to be pulled together in whatever way .cab wants.
>
> We (Sebastian and I) have not found any other programs to write .cab
> files under Unix (many programs support reading .cab's).  There is a
> library libmspack, but it doesn't yet support compression writing either.
>
> Thanks,
> k
>
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