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Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables)
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Saulius Menkevičius |
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Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables) |
Date: |
Sun, 9 Jul 2017 22:49:50 +0300 |
Am 09.07.2017 um 22:45 schrieb Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
>
>> From: Saulius Menkevičius <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 22:26:45 +0300
>> Cc: Alan Third <address@hidden>, Emacs developers <address@hidden>
>>
>> I am one of the maintainers of the C# package for emacs
>> https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-emacs
>> For the package to work properly it needs to run language server, which
>> should be downloaded from
>> https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn/releases
>>
>> I have added a new interactive command omnisharp-install-server which
>> downloads and installs the server to
>> ~/.emacs.d/.cache/omnisharp/server/<version> directory.
>> Thus aleviating the need for the user to navigate to web page, download,
>> extract
>> and the configure package to point to the location where the server has been
>> extracted.
>>
>> For UNIX systems things are easy, I just download tarball and extract it
>> with (call-process „tar“ .. „xz“..)
>>
>> But on Windows things get tough, apparently.
>
> Not really. This should get them going:
>
> (w32-shell-execute "open" "FILENAME.zip")
> or
> (w32-shell-execute "explore" "FILENAME.zip")
>
> (replace FILENAME.zip with the actual file name). This will open the
> Windows Explorer showing the contents of the zip archive, and you
> should tell your users to click "File->Extract all" to extract the
> files into the directory of their choosing.
>
>> Instructing the user to install 7-zip or something else manually kind of
>> invalidates the purpose of automatic installation.
>
> Please never suggest to install 7z, it's not Free Software on Windows
> (and on Unix it's less capable to make it Free Software). If someone
> needs 7z capabilities, the best Free Software alternative is bsdtar
> from the libarchive project.
My questions is still, is it possible to avoid involving user in this procedure?
Or do I need to roll out my own zip parser + extractor in elisp to do so :(
Which is probably slightly complicated thing to do.. Compared to what I
am trying to achieve.
-Saulius
- extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables), Saulius Menkevičius, 2017/07/09
- Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables), Alan Third, 2017/07/09
- Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables), Saulius Menkevičius, 2017/07/09
- Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables), Kaushal Modi, 2017/07/09
- Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables), Saulius Menkevičius, 2017/07/09
- Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/09
- Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables),
Saulius Menkevičius <=
- Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/09
- Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables), Saulius Menkevičius, 2017/07/09
- Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/09
- Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables), Fabrice Popineau, 2017/07/10