std.zip

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On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:02:33 +0000, AndyC wrote:

> I was looking at this bug report:
> 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2138
> 
> and sure enough it doesn't handle zipfiles with more than 65K files.
> 
> and I checked the code and its pretty limited on what it will even read.
> 
> Which got me to wondering, why reinvent the wheel?  Can std.zip use
> libzip instead of rewriting it?

'cause there is no libzip on windows by default, and there are GNU/Linux, 
FreeBSD and other OSes where libzip can absent. making it "required" 
dependency for dmd is not a very good move.

and integrating more and more C libraries in dmd source tree is not a 
good idea too.

yet i found std.zip handy sometimes, so i'm happy that we have it in 
Phobos.
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