Post #2571962
2025-08-08 09:43 UTC
@giuseppe_aceto@scholar.social @jpmens@mastodon.social @gereon@chaos.social You can see a ZIP file as a (very special, or bad, depending) database, as much as you can see the file system itself, where the ZIP file is stored on, as a database.
So a ZIP file on a filesystem is like a MySQL blob within a PostgreSQL table.
Change my mind.
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@giuseppe_aceto@scholar.social 2025-08-08 10:51
@goetz@freiburg.social @jpmens@mastodon.social @gereon@chaos.social no need to change your mind: I agree. Somebody else change our minds. But working from the command line, zip and sqlite3 can process the archive/database with similar level of abstraction. If you're talking about archives of archives, and archives within filesystems, and databases within archives, we're talking reCURSEon: different problem.