Re: ZIP archives

FROM : Mike Abdullah
DATE : Wed Jul 26 13:44:19 2006

Thanks, for all the advice guys.  Going by your advice, it seems that 
using the minizip extension to zlib is the best option.

In particular, to help me start to get a grip on how to use the damn 
thing, I found this very basic framework on CocoaDev.  My intention 
is to hopefully write my own framework for handling archives based on 
this eventually.

http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?ZipArchiveLibraryForCocoa (bottom of 
page)

Also, for others searching the list archives, there is an FFArchive 
framework available which has support for unzipping only of zip and 
rar archives.

Mike.

On 25 Jul 2006, at 8:24PM, 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!?
>
> Mike.
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