D Installler

[Lester L. Martin II]

Dear Mr. Keep,
I believe 7z to be much better than the ones you described as it has better compression although I haven't look at zip and tar and compression methods that deeply. I've always judged compression by how small it gets my files.  The way you judge it seems to be more interesting.
Lester L. Martin II
Daniel Keep Wrote:

> 
> 
> Lester Martin wrote:
> > Lester Martin Wrote:
> > Dear Mr. Miller,
> > I have gotten DFL to finally work with tango. After I have everything working in C# i'll rewrite it with tango and dfl.
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a good zip compression library for D or is this integrated into tango in an easy to use way like example below.
> > FastZip fz = new FastZip(file);
> > fz.unzipTo(ftuzt);
> > fz.setNewZip(file2);
> > fz.compressDirToCurZip(dir);
> > 
> > Those method names may very as long as such functionality is provided.
> > 
> 
> I've got the beginnings of a Zip archive implementation for Tango lying
> around, but it's been held up by various things.  There's little doubt
> that Tango will have Zip support fairly soon (and by "fairly soon" I
> mean by around the end of the year.)
> 
> <rant>
> 
> Incidentally, Zip is a complete bastard of a format to support.  The
> format document is horribly written, disjointed, confusing, incomplete
> and the format itself hasn't so much evolved as *congealed* over time.
> 
> For instance: there's something like four different places the list of
> files in an archive can appear, and just to make things fun, the format
> spec doesn't say *anything* about which one to trust.
> 
> Of course, tar isn't much better; that one has *multiple* incompatible
> standards; half of the time, there's no reliable way to tell them apart,
> either.
> 
> I haven't had the heart to even try looking at 7z yet...
> 
> </rant>
> 
> 	-- Daniel