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Here are features that may be nice to have in future releases of
apt-zip:


* other fetch methods

** apt
** lftp backend
** traditional ftp client (if at all possible)
** liburi-perl


* space checking

Unfortunately a simple file-size-rounded-media-blocksize sum does not
properly model a VFAT partition, as it seems.  More tests needed to
find an accurate algorithm.


* tar space-saving when space is overflowed.

** auto-add "tar" command at end of script if blocksize-caused
space-overflow detected, and tarfile would fit - maybe add "autotar"
option for this.

** auto-detection of tarball by apt-zip-inst, so that it can take a
relevant action:

 - using removable media as spool dir (no tar - is what we currently do)
 - untar into apt spool dir
 - use userfs on the tarball to still prevent copying the files in local
   spool dir (I don't even know whether this fancy is realistic - never
   looked at userfs seriously)


* multi-zip support

When one zip is not enough, maybe 2 can be good.  This may require
nice optimization algorithm if we want to combine this with tar
support.


* allow upgrading a session on download host - that is, update a set
of already downloaded files using a newer script.

-- Last updated: 2000/01/07 for 0.8 release
