62701 - Feature: ability to read file size in .xpi archive

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, enhancement, P3)

Description

[David Epstein]

Currently, we can obtain the file size of a file already installed by using 
File.size(). It would be nice to be able to obtain that info *before* the 
archive contents are installed. That way, a script writer can ascertain whether 
or not there is enough room on the harddrive to install it. 

Note: if you list out the contents of the archive (even before unzipping it), 
the file sizes can be obtained. In UNIX, do an "unzip -v". It also lists out 
time stamps as well, so that could be useful as well (e.g. for File.modDate()). 
I'll leave that for another enhancement request.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

The xpinstall script engine has been removed from the trunk, bugs in it are obsolete.