[fpc-pascal] FPC Zip library

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

On Jan 28, 2008 10:07 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> Doesn't the zipper unit that comes standard with FPC suit your needs ?
> As far as I know, there is no special treatment needed for directories,
> just add the file with a name like subdir/filename.ext ?

Well, I tryed it, but I got stuck with some problems:

1 - I couldn't find anyway to tell it how the file will be called
inside the Zip file, and therefore I can't add the file "with a name"

There is TZipper.ZipFiles and receives a TStringList with the names of
the files on disk to be zipped. There is no parameter to tell how the
files will be called inside the Zip file.

I tryed to follow the code to see it something like that is possible,
and a found a TZipItem with some structure members about a path.
Unfortunately both refer too to the file on the disk that will be
zipper, nothing about the name inside the zip file.

2 - It doesn't allow to give a stream of data to be compressed into a
zip file. My data is on memory, saving it and re-reading is a waste.
This one is easy to fix without knowledge of zip format, and I started
building a TZipper. ZipStreams, but then I met problem 1 and gave up,
because it is a show stopper, and not at all easy to solve (I don't
understand anything about zip file structure).

thanks,
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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho