[Qt-interest] Reading/Writing archives

[Jeroen De Wachter]

Any reason why you shouldn't be able to use zlib? or gzip? or zip 
(www.info-zip.org)?

These are all open-source projects that provide 
compression/decompression capablity and (at first glance) all are 
available on major platforms.

Frederic Tingaud wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am working on a project where users can create libraries for the
> application that would be a set of file. My first idea was to read/write
> a zip file (or any supported archive format) containing all the files,
> renamed with our own extension. That would allow users to have a single
> file to distribute and they can manipulate the file outside the
> application if they really want to.
> I don't want to use a QProcess with an other application and I would
> rather not uncompress the file on the user's disk.
> The problem is that I searched the documentation and the web and I
> cannot find anybody doing something like that except for KDE with their
> KArchive.
> Does anybody have an idea on a way to achieve this?
>
> --.
> Frederic Tingaud
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