Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:01:38 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no> Cc: Jiandong Lu <lujiandong1001@yahoo.com.cn>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: about zlib on FreeBSD Message-ID: <4B166532.3040108@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <867ht5o809.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <169495.53734.qm@web15703.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> <867ht5o809.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Jiandong Lu <lujiandong1001@yahoo.com.cn> 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. Vince
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