From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <32d987d51002020017p19c6abc6u4f15b7b61bcd153a@mail.gmail.com> <13426df11002020923n7b6c9d3aw210394165ab34071@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:40:38 -0200 Message-ID: <32d987d51002021740x3e264c60lfa8e03c431f878f7@mail.gmail.com> From: "Federico G. Benavento" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] contrib/gui Topicbox-Message-UUID: cc428a56-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 that you can create a .iso with a proto file, which is just handy. there wouldn't be a problem in using a different packaging format if it has the infrastructure, tar doesn't cut it as it doesn't support Plan 9 specific metadata, long names... On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:34 PM, hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:23 PM, ron minnich wrote: >> It's really neat -- give it a try. One thing that is not apparent is >> that the packages are set up as iso's, and they are pulled down as >> such, i.e. it's way faster to pull them down than running replica >> against far-away sources. >> >> ron >> >> > > what's the advantage of using iso over other packaging formats here? > > -- Federico G. Benavento