Adds ZipFS to the existing solutions

[arcanis]

Yarn has been using a filesystem layer over Node for all PnP applications for a few years now. It's well-maintained, used in production, covered by tests (although there's no way to run the Node.js test suite over it, which is too bad), and supports almost all Node features (including fds, buffer paths, file watching, ...).

We use it to package every dependency, including those with bin entries (for instance, when you run yarn eslint, it runs it straight from the zip archive thanks to this layer).

Here's what the implementation looks like:
https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry/blob/master/packages/yarnpkg-fslib/sources/ZipFS.ts

[RaisinTen]

Does it make sense to put this under a new section called "Virtual File System Implementations" because IIUC, the zip is separate from the executable?

[jviotti]

Thanks @arcanis ! I agree with @RaisinTen . Let's add a new section called Virtual File System Implementations with a new table, and ZipFS in there!

[RaisinTen]

@jviotti done - #7!

[arcanis]

Sure 👍 I'll wait for #7 to be merged and update my PR accordingly

[RaisinTen]

@arcanis #7 has been merged btw :)

[cspotcode]

FWIW long ago I prototyped a simplification of nexe that replaced its virtual FS thing (custom, buggy, limited) with ZipFS. (robust, feature-complete, maintained) I was able to bake a zip into the binary (was not a separate file) and use ZipFS to mount it as a virtual filesystem.

I think it's a cool idea, worth investigating.

[ovflowd]

#7 got merged sooo,

[RaisinTen]

I've moved the ZipFS part to VFS implementations and force-pushed. Landing now!