On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Alan Horkan wrote:
The only minor concern would be that once you start offering Zink files there will be the expectation that future versions of Inkscape will be able to open them too but if you are careful that shouldn't be difficult.
Would it be possible to offer both, something like Type: "Inkscape Collected File (.zink, .zip) " including a secondary extension, so that if a user manually specified the file extension as .zip it wouldn't be replaced or changed?
There is another option...
(just to complicate matters)
We might want to look at XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP), as mentioned in Inkscape RFE 119540.
Oooh... and Dr. Dobb's just ran an article on it too
XML-Binary Optimized Packaging XML and nontext data can work together http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=9857/q=1/ddj0512g/0512g.html