[Qt-interest] Reading/Writing archives

[Frederic Tingaud]

Jeroen De Wachter a écrit :
> 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.
>
Hello,
>From what I read, zlib works only for single-file archives.
With gzip or zip libraries, I may have missed something, but it seemed
to me that it cannot navigate in the archive file without uncompressing
it on the disk first.
> 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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