Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Jiandong Lu <[email protected]> writes: > >> zlib package of ms windows could handle .zip archives, it compiles >> minizip into the zip library. >> > > Firstly, zlib is one thing and one thing only, namely the reference > implementation of Jean-Loup Gailly's gzip (aka. deflate) compression > algorithm. See zlib.net. > > Secondly, Microsoft don't maintain official packages of third-party > software, so there is no such thing as "zlib package of ms windows". > Various projects (Cygwin, MSYS, MinGW, GNUWin32) ship pre-compiled zlib > binaries for Windows, but none of the four I mentioned include zip > support in their version of zlib. > > >> Should we merge minizip into libz ? >> > > No. Why should we? > > If you want to create or unpack .zip files on FreeBSD, use tar(1). > > DES > To be fair, bsdtar(1) on my 8-STABLE box says it can read but not that it can create zipfiles. It it can create them that would be handy.
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