Re: ZIP archives

FROM : Scott Thompson
DATE : Tue Jul 25 21:38:51 2006

On Jul 25, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Mike Abdullah wrote:

> I am wanting to implement in my app the ability to create 
> standard .zip archives.  I have looked through the list archives 
> and read various things on the internet, but I'm rather confused :(
>
> Thus far my research has uncovered to me:
>
> zlib - pre-installed with OS X.  Does not support .zip archives, 
> but there is add-on code to do it.
>
> gzip - Also doesn't support .zip archives
>
> info-zip - As far as I can tell, this is an open source command 
> line tool, rather than a library I can use.
>
> So, what would people recommend for Cocoa use?  Should I use NSTask 
> to have a command line tool handle the thing for me?  Or should I 
> use a library like zlib?  Or is there something better that I've 
> missed altogether!?


For what it may be worth, our Cocoa application uses the zlib that is 
already installed on Mac OS X.  I believe we have our own code that 
creates .zip archives out of it and that we use zlib to do the 
compression, but I'm not terribly familiar with that code so I may be 
mistaken.

Scott