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[Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, the MSI APIs won't (ever?) deal with compressed data in their tables. Our own metadata extensions could be compressed, but then we'd need to uncompress the data before using it.  And given that it's not likely going to be too big, I wouldn't worry.

G


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-----Original Message-----
From: Olaf van der Spek [mailto:olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:27 AM
To: Garrett Serack
Cc: coapp-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: MSI compression

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> MSI files are actually Windows Structured Storage files (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380369%28v=VS.85%29.aspx).
>
> In order that older tools and OSes can read them, they really can't change the fundamentals of how the files are written and store data. I can't see them ever adding a compression layer on top of structured storage (they'll tell ya to compress it yourself before storing it).

In that case MSI could (un)compress these parts, right?

Olaf