Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:49:58 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Jiandong Lu <lujiandong1001@yahoo.com.cn> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: about zlib on FreeBSD Message-ID: <867ht5o809.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <169495.53734.qm@web15703.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> (Jiandong Lu's message of "Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:42:34 %2B0800 (CST)") References: <169495.53734.qm@web15703.mail.cnb.yahoo.com>
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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 ?=20 No. Why should we? If you want to create or unpack .zip files on FreeBSD, use tar(1). DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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