From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Saulius Menkevičius" <saulius.menkevicius@gmail.com>
Cc: alan@idiocy.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, kaushal.modi@gmail.com
Subject: Re: extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables)
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 23:09:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8360f1jrtl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B2288ABC-DE5D-4545-B828-B83E7B0F2A4E@gmail.com> (message from Saulius Menkevičius on Sun, 9 Jul 2017 22:49:50 +0300)
> From: Saulius Menkevičius <saulius.menkevicius@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 22:49:50 +0300
> Cc: kaushal.modi@gmail.com,
> alan@idiocy.org,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > (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?
But the user is already involved -- they started the installation to
begin with, didn't they? So why do you want so hard to avoid them
clicking one more button?
> 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.
Maybe somebody knows how to tell the Explorer to extract the files
without user interaction. I don't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-09 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-09 12:26 extracting a zip archive via elisp (with no external executables) Saulius Menkevičius
2017-07-09 18:51 ` Alan Third
2017-07-09 18:58 ` Saulius Menkevičius
2017-07-09 19:15 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-07-09 19:26 ` Saulius Menkevičius
2017-07-09 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-09 19:49 ` Saulius Menkevičius
2017-07-09 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-07-09 20:16 ` Saulius Menkevičius
2017-07-10 2:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-10 7:25 ` Fabrice Popineau
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