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diff --git a/Build/source/libs/zziplib/docs/developer.htm b/Build/source/libs/zziplib/docs/developer.htm new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..57c5c685ca7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/libs/zziplib/docs/developer.htm @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +<section> <date> 2004-05-18 </date> +<H2> Developer </H2> sourceforge CVS area + +<center> +<a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=6389"> + http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=6389 </a> +</center> + +<P> + Since 0.13.x the zziplib is using a cvs module "zzip-0" at the + sourceforge cvs source repository host. You can get a snapshot + from that area anytime, the access details can be found under the + link above. All later releases are actually snapshots of some + cvs day. (Prior releases had seen too many reshuffling of the + build system which cvs is not the best tool to handle gracefully). +</P> +<P> + I am using the sourceforge compilefarm to do remote testing of + releses for crossplatform compatibility. This includes usually + some unix compatible platforms such as Linux, Solaris, + FreeBSD, Darwin/MacOSX including i386, amd64, sparc, sparc64, + powerpc when available. Even the latest daytoday cvs snapshots + should be fine for these platforms. +</P> +<P> + In the labs of my employer some more platforms exist but these are + only checked once in a few months, mostly summertime and christmas + season if the general workload is low. That includes hp/ux but more + importantly a real MSVC6 installation and a few PCs with win32 flavours. + I do not use win32 at home! Any help in that area is greatly appreciated, + the zziplib was written in strict ansi-C but the build system and dll hell + is sometimes very weird for win32 platforms. I feel it often requires + experienced hands to detect the source of a problem should there be one. +</P> +<P> + Note also that I do not use PHP, there is a regular flow of questions + circulating around the php-zip module which is built around zziplib. But + I can not answer any questions about the build and installation for that. + It would be greatly appreciated if I can find contact to a PHP hacker + to whom I can forward php related mails! The php zip wrapper is not part + of the zziplib in any way. +</P> +<P> + Since there is an MSVC6 system in reach now, I have not been updating my + gcc/mingw32 installations as rigidly as most other win32 developers + have. I understand there are great advancements in the msys/mingw32 area + and the provided technology which made them follow quickly. However in + the labs only some older releases are used for these are called more + "stable". Remember that I do not use win32 at home, only crosscompile to + mingw32 is checked out sometimes but I know that it is somewhat different + than the selfhosted msys environment. Any help is greatly appreciated. +</P> +<P> + Lastly, I am trying to make the zziplib as close as possible to the + thing called "industrial strength". But remember that this is still + an opensource spare time probject. <b>I take patches</b>! Many of the + interesting parts of zziplib have been introduced by submission which + I have later integrated more heavily to make the zziplib be what it + was always intended for: to be a small, fast and portable library allowing + to use a zip file as a special variant of a data filesystem. The ext/io + obfuscation stuff was one of the best feature submissions so far. Thanks. +</P> +<P> + Looking forward to hear from <em>YOU</em>. + - <a href="mailto:guidod@gmx.de?subject=zzip:">guidod@gmx.de</a> +</P> +</section> |