Add-ons & Workers |
Add-ons, also referred to as archivers are independent modules that handle various archive types. Add-ons are named "ark_zip", "ark_tar" etc. Additional add-ons maybe written to support more archive formats.
Workers in Beezer are those command-line programs that physically manipulate the archives, such as zip, unzip, tar etc. Workers are placed in the workers folder and in general you must NOT rename or delete any of them. By default they are all symbolic links that point to the location where the actual command-line program is suppose to reside. If you find "broken" links in this folder that means, either you don't have the command-line program installed or you have it installed in someother location. To fix this, either install the command-line program in the place where the link points to, or replace the link itself by a copy of the program.
The reason why workers are made as symbolic links is because, in case a future version of the worker binary BREAKS compatibility with Beezer, you can use the older version by replacing the symbolic link with the older version file.
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