[Gambas-user] Feature Request: loading gz projects

[Benoit Minisini]

On jeudi 12 juin 2008, o.s.p wrote:
> Benoit Minisini ha scritto:
> > On jeudi 12 juin 2008, o.s.p wrote:
> >> hallo
> >> this FR borns from the fact that i'm using a usb memory (fat16) to
> >> strore a my little app that i develop on two machines,
> >> a pc and a laptop.
> >> i've strored the project on this as .gz.
> >> if the ide would be able to open compressed projects i can use it
> >> directly without the need of decompression or if stored on fat as plain
> >> text, loosing attributes...
> >> bye and thanks!
> >
> > It would be very difficult to modify the sources of all gambas programs
> > and components to support that.
> >
> > But I think that you can use 'fuse' to mount your .gz file as a
> > directory. If someone that knows 'fuse' well could confirm...
>
> too difficult...
> the ide is able to create a compressed source archive;
> it would be nice if it would can automatically decompress the sources on
> a linux tmp directory, use it and save everything back to the compressed
> archive.
> i hope to have been more clear!
> salud.
>

I didn't see the problem like that. :-)

But the project would be able to be compressed back to its original 
emplacement only when the project is closed or when quitting the IDE. If the 
IDE crashes, or is aborted by other means, then you might lose your changes 
if you are not aware.

I put your suggestion in the TODO file...

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini