Re: [GWhere-discussion] libs reading .zip files

[Zero]

Hi everybody,

> > I think that zlib only works with GZIP archives not ZIP archives. :-(
>
>
> Well... in its source from http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ (in 
> contrib/minizip/unzip.h) it says
>
> "This unzip package allow extract file from .ZIP file, compatible with 
> PKZip 2.04g, WinZip, InfoZip tools and compatible.
>    Encryption and multi volume ZipFile (span) are not supported.
>    Old compressions used by old PKZip 1.x are not supported."
>
> IMHO could do the job, for a start.

You're right. I will proceed in this way.

> Although i could have some of those pkzip 1.x files somewhere 8^(

We could write an other plugin for this file format.

> Via Freshmeat.net i found a few more relevant library projects:
>
> * http://zziplib.sourceforge.net/
>     "offers the ability to easily extract data from files archived in a
>     single zip file."
>     (but seems to just do the same code as zlib)

It seems be a very interesting project!!

> * http://www.guru-group.fi/~too/sw/zip08x.readme
>     "a library that can read contents of files archived in a zip file
> with a very simple library api."
>     now superceded by zziplib

Ok, I noted it.

> * http://zipios.sourceforge.net/
>     "Zipios++ is a java.util.zip-like C++ library for reading and 
> writing Zip files."
>     but builds upon zlib

Now I have problem with C++ written plugins. In fact, these plugins 
compile under any system, but GWhere can load C++ plugins only under 
win32 system... :-/

Thank you very much for your research.

I would like inform you that I'm working on two GWhere versions :
- 0.1.6 : only bug fix (it will be published in few days)
- 0.2.0 : catalog plugin support (in development)
I can say that the 0.2.0 is a important work (in spent time). So it will 
take several time. But after I will work on the archive file scanning. 
Except if this feature is easy to code, I may publish a 0.1.7 version. ;-)

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Best regards,

Zero
Maintainer,

GWhere - Another way to manage your catalogs!!
http://www.gwhere.org