Re: zipping/unzipping library?

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:13:00PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> 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.

There is also libgsf which is more gobject oriented.