Re: about zlib on FreeBSD

2009-12-28 Thread Tim Kientzle
Tim Kientzle wrote: Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:01:38PM +, Vincent Hoffman wrote: 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. The support for zip creation hasn't been mer

Re: about zlib on FreeBSD

2009-12-28 Thread Tim Kientzle
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:01:38PM +, Vincent Hoffman wrote: 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. The support for zip creation hasn't been merged yet. I finally

Re: about zlib on FreeBSD

2009-12-02 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:01:38PM +, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > 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. The support for zip creation hasn't been merged yet. Joerg _

Re: about zlib on FreeBSD

2009-12-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Vincent Hoffman writes: > To be fair, bsdtar(1) on my 8-STABLE box says it can read but not that > it can create zipfiles. Huh, I thought Tim had fixed that long ago. Well, there's always /usr/ports/archivers/zip, or you can send patches to kientzle@ :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no

Re: about zlib on FreeBSD

2009-12-02 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Jiandong Lu 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) co

Re: about zlib on FreeBSD

2009-12-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Jiandong Lu 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, Mi

about zlib on FreeBSD

2009-12-02 Thread Jiandong Lu
zlib package of ms windows could handle .zip archives,it compiles minizip into the zip library. the library libz on FreeBSD does not compiles minizip. Should we merge minizip into libz ? Minizip's licence is the same to zlib,so there is no licence barrie. minizip has only three samll *.c files.