Samisa Abeysinghe wrote:
Sanjaya Ratnaweera wrote:
Samisa Abeysinghe wrote:
I am implementiing an archive based deployment model for Axis2 C.
For that we need an uncompression library. I was considering zlib,
but according to the FAQ, it can't handle the ZIP format.
http://www.zlib.net/zlib_faq.html#faq11
Therefore, I am proposing to use minizip.
http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html
But minizip does not have an installable library. We can include
it with the axis2 distribution as a library. We won't change the
minizip souce and I think it should be distributed under the
minizip license. Minizip license is same as zlib, I am attaching
it with this mail.
Instead of shipping it, cant we make it an optional feature so that
users could download and compile if they wish so?
The problem is minizip does not have an installable library. If we
are going to use minizip we want to create it.
What do you mean by "We want to create it"? Is our code too much
dependent on minizip? Arn't there any other open source zip libraties?
I think I should explain the state of affairs here as it is not very
intuitive. Minizip claims that it's a library, although it doen't seem
like one. As Samisa mentioned, we can ask users to download and install
minizip executable. We can also think about alternatives. If we use a
3'rd party program like unzip, there won't be any licensing issues.
Thanks
~sanjaya
Samisa...
