library.zip and 7zip
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Tue Jul 6 11:14:17 EDT 2004
Scott David Daniels wrote:
> 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.
Shouldn't somebody remove that recipe from the wiki then? Or
can it in fact work (sometimes?), and the explanation is something
else?
-Peter
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