Data Package Bundling (and maybe compression)

[sabas]

Updated: 2016-11-17

We want a way to "bundle" a data package into a single file for transmission. In addition it may be compressed at the same time.

Note also that individual resources can be compressed in themselves - see #290

Desired Features

• Widely supported in client systems
• Ability to access data within the bundle easily and without downloading the entire bundle (e.g. to stream resources from the bundle)

Original Description

As other packaging types use compression for distributing each package (JAR is a ZIP archive), there should be a section proposing a way to deal with compressed data packages.