[Development] Either remove or make QZip{Reader, Writer} official

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed May 27 22:55:49 CEST 2026


On Wednesday, 27 May 2026 13:31:59 Pacific Daylight Time Scott Bloom wrote:
> Please don’t remove it without a replacement 😉  I use it in several of my
> projects (Microsoft ***x formats that zip the data is a big one).
> 
> I would be willing to volunteer  to work on bringing it to Qt public
> quality.

It would be preferable to have a replacement than not, but it will depend on 
there being a volunteer or two to write it.

Let's wait a few more days for more opinions and volunteer candidates, but we 
may propose a labs repository to write a library, which we can then later 
decide to move into qtbase.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Principal Engineer - Intel DCG - Platform & Sys. Eng.
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