[fpc-pascal] streaming file from zip into my app

[Marco van de Voort]

> Am Freitag, den 30.11.2007, 23:09 +0200 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> > On 30/11/2007, Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at t-online.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > But I still have questions about the code. Do I understand correctly
> > > that Graeme contributed the de-/compression code but it still has to get
> > > integrated and used by the component?
> > 
> > We used the zlib (de)compression units from the tiOPF project. We
> > simply removed the references to other tiOPF units - it was pretty
> > stand-alone already so was easy.  So yes, what's left is to integrate
> > that code into the TZipFile component and do some tests. The
> > (de)compression code has already been well unit tested in tiOPF, so we
> > know that part works perfectly.  As I stated earlier, I have also
> > found a Object Pascal implementation of 7zip which I would like to add
> > to both TZipFile and tiOPF - I still need to double check the
> > licensing though.
> 
> I'm remembering slowly, zlib is for handling gzip format, pkzip format
> is still missing. And 7zip, does it have it's own format or is this used
> for the common ".zip"-files?
> 
> If I would want to complete the component, I'd try to use and maybe add
> something to the unit I've already found in packages/extra/unzip. At
> least the compression routines should do.

Note if sb works on zlib, there still is a bugreport about OOo files and
zlib in mantis (mismatch in CRC). I tried to fix it, but got stuck