[Kde-games-devel] Create file archives with Qt/kdelibs

[Matthew Woehlke]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> There's one downside as well, depending on how you create the files in
> the first place. If you have your game data checked into svn as source
> files, you probably want to pack them up as .tar.gz during building your
> project. Thats unfortunately not portable, if you use the standard
> tar/gzip tools, because those don't exist in a usable fashion on win32.

Would it be unreasonable to have the build produce a helper application 
based on KArchive, and use *that* to make the package? (I know nothing 
about packaging...)

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Matthew
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