Re: zipping/unzipping library?

[Thomas Klausner <tk giga or at>]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:30:32PM -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> Before I embark on this I'd like to find out if something of the 
> sort already exists, or if someone else is already working in this 
> area.  Also, perhaps, how much interest there might be in this 
> project.
>
> What I'm thinking would be useful is a library, with the portability 
> level of glib, offering the functionality of creating and extracting 
> files from zip archives.  I envisage it using both glib and zlib, 
> and offering a basic API with these elements:
>
> * A function to create a zip file, given a target filename, a list 
> of files to archive, and a compression level.
>
> * A function to retrieve a list of file attributes from a zip 
> archive.
>
> * A function to extract all, or a selected list of, files from a zip 
> archive.

Take a look at libzip
        http://www.nih.at/libzip/
It doesn't directly write files to the file system, but makes it
very easy to do so yourself, and supports your other requested
features.

Cheers,
 Thomas