The 7-zip UI is a little screwy in my mind but years ago WinZip felt more
like an advertising system than an archive tool and I gave up on it.
<smile/>
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com>wrote:
> Thanks for the recommendation of 7-zip, I have been using the command
> line version for years I didn't realise they had a UI as well now. WinZip
> was great until they started blotting it.
>
> Neil
>
> 7-zip works fine for me and, yes, the whole build process is different
> for WiX v3.7. Creating .zip files is using whole new mechanism (NAnt has
> built-in support for creating .zip files and MSBuild does not).
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com>wrote:
>
>> Ok I’ll give that a go but defect 3130 says that 7-zip has a problem
>> with them.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> This only happens with 3.7 has something changed with the 3.7 zipping
>> process?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Neil****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *From:* Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
>> *Sent:* 21 November 2012 05:34
>> *To:* Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
>> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-devs] [wix:bugs] #3144 Problem with 3.7 zip files****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Standard zipping tools can unzip them (explorer.exe for example), it's
>> just WinZip that seems to have an issue with them. 7-zip (which I use since
>> I find WinZip annoying) does fine. This seems like a bug in WinZip.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com>
>> wrote:****
>>
>> This and 3130 have been closed without an explanation why – can I ask why
>> this won’t be fixed; it is a real pain to not be able to use standard
>> unzipping tools.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Neil****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> *From:* Neil Sleightholm [mailto:nsle...@users.sf.net]
>> *Sent:* 20 November 2012 22:02
>> *To:* [wix:bugs]
>> *Subject:* [wix:bugs] #3144 Problem with 3.7 zip files****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Can I ask why this won't be fixed?****
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> *bugs:3144 <http://sourceforge.net/../bugs:3144> Problem with 3.7 zip
>> files*****
>>
>> *Status:* wont-fix
>> *Created:* Tue Nov 20, 2012 09:15 PM UTC by Neil Sleightholm
>> *Last Updated:* Tue Nov 20, 2012 09:42 PM UTC
>> *Owner:* nobody****
>>
>> The zip files for source and binaries fail to extract with WinZip. The
>> error displayed is "Warning: skipping "tools\src\XsdStitch\". The 32-bit
>> CRC stored in the local header for this file is not the same as the 32-bit
>> CRC stored in the central header" (this happens for all files). They unzip
>> ok with Explorer.****
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