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- Well, it sounds to me like zlibc is a good one. You don't have to use
- it unless you want to and that's nice for everyone. The issue of compressed
- executables is interesting too, but I think the zlibc idea is a more
- general solution for the problem of resources. You just compress up
- the data files and let the library handle them transparently.
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- BTW, it occurs to me that compressed executables could be implemented
- with the following scheme (ugly, but easy). Compress the command,
- create an alias or shell function for that command which would uncompress
- the command to run it (from /tmp or something). This is kludgy, but
- does not require any changes to the kernel, the filesystem, or the
- libraries. Right?
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- Thinking out loud again :-)
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- Rob
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