library.zip and 7zip

[Scott David Daniels]

Jaco Smuts wrote:

> ... I  am trying to use 7 zip to reduce  the size of my library.zip file, 
> but this  seems to break the application....
> Any advice ?
7zip uses the most recent ZIP specification, while Python's zip only
allows access to "ZIP_STORED" and "ZIP_DEFLATED" compression.  I've a
back-burner project to add at least BZIP2 compression to zipfile, but
I've had problems getting good small test cases using other
compressions.  I tried 7zip when I was looking, but it was pretty
broken on Win2K at the time.  Sometime this fall, the patent on
"IMPLODE" will expire,and that may be the right time to add that
as well to zipfile.


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-Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org