mshtml.inf: Add default GeckoCabDir

Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel at kievinfo.com
Fri Oct 1 08:20:17 CDT 2010


On 10/01/2010 06:53 AM, Jacek Caban wrote:
> - Windows has builtin support for ZIP files. It's hidden behind an obscure
> APIs, but it's something we could implement and use in MSHTML.
> - Use .tar.gz files. We already use zlib in Wine, we could use it in MSHTML.
> tar format is simple enough to implement its custom handling.
> - Any other idea?
>
> Do you have any opinion?
>

Tarballs been always the de facto standard in *NIX world. It would be nice 
to use that.

You could even rely on availability of the command line tools (gzip and tar) 
to extract gecko files. And packagers can make sure Wine depends on them).

Vitaliy.



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