On 10/12/2022 2:35 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
On 2022-10-11 20:37, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
We just got bit by a 4+ year old bug (See
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20859) where the revZIP
library on macOS can create and read ZIP archives over 2GB, BUT
On 2022-10-11 20:37, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
We just got bit by a 4+ year old bug (See
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20859) where the revZIP
library on macOS can create and read ZIP archives over 2GB, BUT the
Windows library can not.
Do you ship your app as a 64-bit
The two bugs mentioned in this thread ( the revZip on Windows and the snapshot)
sound like good candidates for the Top Ten Bugs survey that LiveCode Ltd. had
run a year or so ago. It was a success it seemed and there was talk at the of
running that survey again.
Panos, Mark,
Any plans for
Have you considered chunking the problem up and using compress v revZip
library? I ran into something similar when I wanted to keep memory down for
encrypting/decrypting multi-gig log files…got a lot of advice about just using
shell—but for the same sorts of reasons as you I wanted to do things
Hi Sean,
I wonder if you could open the unzipper as a process in LC. Then your
app could probably receive realtime updates from it and let the user
what's going on.
I've done that before but it was a long time ago, so I have forgotten
more than I remember.
HTH -
Phil Davis
On 10/11/22
Thank you for the history.
Yes, using other ZIP tools via shell is a possibility, but one I would
rather not do. While some researchers who use our app are very computer
savvy, most are not. Having a LiveCode ZIP in a window with a nice UI
that uses terminology our data analysis tool already
Hi Paul
I got affected by that and other win revzip issues too. I ended up parsing them
through a shell script and using windows built in unzipper. Of course the
downfall with that is a lack of feedback on progress which, for large files
like this, requires a great deal of time to process and
