dumping libzip

[Martin Gysel]

Am 08.01.2014 00:22, schrieb Lubomir I. Ivanov:
> On 8 January 2014 01:12, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 01:07 +0200, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
>>>>> i think we can.
>>>>> there is just some basic source code in the lines of "io functions
>>>>> like fopen", "zipping stuff", "unzipping stuff" and some helper
>>>>> headers.
>>>>> we need to include those .o files in our files and simply use the zlib
>>>>> shared library.
>>>>
>>>> Why a shared library? Why not just link them into our executable?
>>>>
>>>>> the i/o buffer support from minizip is not part of zlib upstream and
>>>>> it seems to be only in the minizip upstream.
>>>>> we technically need that in locations like subsurfacewebservices.cpp
>>>>> and file.c, but we can still manage to open files instead of buffers.
>>>>
>>>> I assumed based on your last set of emails we were planning to use the
>>>> minizip upstream as starting point.
>>>>
>>>
>>> we can, but i was concerned about our code base inflation based on
>>> previous emails in this thread.
>>> the minizip upstead adds some extra 1k-2k lines of code just for that
>>> buffer i/o API.
>>>
>>> if we use zlib upsteam minizip does not have support for buffer i/o.
>>
>> Is it worth the 1-2k? For us it's just a quick detour via a temp file. I
>> think that's overkill to avoid the temp file.
>>
> 
> it think we can skip the buffer support for now.
> i generally i don't understand libraries not supporting file i/o next
> to buffer i/o.
> it's pretty much the same thing.
> 
> when we started adding gettext support for the GTK build i wrote this
> in my spare time for fun:
> https://github.com/neolit123/cfg2
> 
> one of the first features i've added was buffer readout...pretty much. :)
> 
>>
>> Please send patches. This sounds like the right thing to do.
>>
> 
> will try to do so!

just to be sure I've understood you two correctly, you agreed to bundle
zlib's minizip. If that's true, I sink it shouldn't be to hard to let
qmake decide which one to use, the bundled version statically linked or
the system one linked dynamically (e.g. if pkg-config file is found).
this should also make the distros happy which ship zlib's minizip and
have the 'don't bundle libs if ever possible policy'.

/martin