Re: [compress] Do we want 7z Archive*Stream-like classes

2013-09-30 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2013-09-30, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > 2013/9/30 Stefan Bodewig >> I'm in no way as familiar with the format as Damian is but IMHO it is >> feasible - but likely pretty memory hungry. Even more so for the >> writing side. Similar to zip some information is stored in a central >> place but in

Re: [compress] Do we want 7z Archive*Stream-like classes

2013-09-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, I think it is not related to java, but a general problem of some file formats in regards to streaming access. If a format needs seeking/random-access there are basically three options (with the Java classes but also other languages). The first is having a random access file (which

Re: [compress] Do we want 7z Archive*Stream-like classes

2013-09-30 Thread Benedikt Ritter
2013/9/30 Stefan Bodewig > On 2013-09-29, Torsten Curdt wrote: > > > Hm - it is indeed a little misleading. So I am +0 for an inclusion. > > This is what I feel as well. > > > Is a stream based implementation of 7z somewhat feasible - at least in > > theory? > > I'm in no way as familiar with the