Add support for compressed scripts, and libraries in the form of compressed archives.
Compressed scripts should probably just get an additional extension; "somescript.a2s.gz", whereas libraries (typically directories with no extension) are archived in the usual "somelibrary.tar.gz" fashion.
Obvious options for compression would be zlib, libbz2, and liblzma, but it seems like all of them needs an additional library (or custom code) for archives. There may be other options that are smaller, more effective, and/or cover the archive part without extra code.
Add support for compressed scripts, and libraries in the form of compressed archives.
Compressed scripts should probably just get an additional extension; "somescript.a2s.gz", whereas libraries (typically directories with no extension) are archived in the usual "somelibrary.tar.gz" fashion.
Obvious options for compression would be zlib, libbz2, and liblzma, but it seems like all of them needs an additional library (or custom code) for archives. There may be other options that are smaller, more effective, and/or cover the archive part without extra code.
(See also #324.)