this has been discussed before, (note: does not affect the 4.2 release)
libzip is a good library but it has it's flaws - it doesn't work well on windows, because windows doesn't support utf-8 filenames; i just checked things like zip-open.c from their HEAD and it seems that _wopen() is still not used; _wmkdir() is probably missing as well. another flaw is that it cannot operate on memory buffers, which means you can only use a file interface. there was a GSOC project about using minizip. i had some time to rest yesterday, so i wrote these commits that implement the minizip idea: https://github.com/neolit123/subsurface/commits/zip the interface is partial (only the "extract-from-zip" logic) and is currently not used by subsurface. the "add-to-zip" is more complicated, since minizip doesn't support *everything* in terms of memory operations, but i know how to structure the zip file-format chunks directly with something like extra 80 LOC. overall this minizip implementation will require a more low-level maintenance, but will give better control. also, i will need some more free time to finish it. comments on show-stoppers and everything else are appreciated. lubomir -- _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
