<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ok@cs.otago.ac.nz" target="_blank">ok@cs.otago.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1wz" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">The idea is that you might want to package up a bunch of stuff in a<br>
ZIP file (or some other kind of archive), to save space, or to make<br>
it easier to move stuff around, or whatever. Why should you have<br>
to extract a file from an archive in order to read it? Why should<br>
the compiler not be able to read *directly* from the archive?</div></blockquote></div><br>If the compiler is supposed to read the archive, then you mean that the source files should be packed in one? I can see the use for beam files to be distributed this way, but I'm not sure about sources - if they are supposed to get edited, then we have to unpack them anyway; if not, then beams are just as good. Or am I missing something?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">best regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Vlad</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>