From 7e31940d870acce4bb9f52ea17efd6e5a19220da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido Draheim
+ The installation is from the source .tar.gz tarball does follow
+ the simple gnu style: type ''configure && make install''
+ in the unpacked directory. This will actually perform the usual
+ sequence of ''configure && make && make install''. The
+ use of ''make rpm'' will make rpms based on your system
+ setup, and using a decent mingw32 compiler (e.g. the crossgcc
+ from libsdl.org/Xmingw32)
+ will allow you to create windows dlls using a gnu development
+ environment. MSVC and Borland support (Make-)files should be
+ easy to be derived from the Makefile.am
+
+ The library was developed by
+
+ Guido Draheim based on the library
+
+ zip08x
+ by Tomi Ollila (many thanks
+ for his support of the zziplib project). He has provided
+ a good deal of testing rounds and very helpful comments.
+ It may be assumed that this library supersedes
+
+ zip08x, and in April 2002, he
+ has even given up copyright restrictions coming from zip08x
+ and changed the zip08x
+ readme to point to zziplib.
+ Anyone who wants to contribute in accessing zip-archives
+ with the zlib-library is hereby kindly invited to send us
+ comments and sourcecode.
+
+The zziplib library must be
+linked with the free zlib
+[1]
+[2]
+[3] package originally developed
+by the Info-Zip Group
+and now maintained at the GZip Group.
+Be also aware of other zzip like projects, e.g.
+zipios++ that
+mangles zip access into C++ iostream facilities.
+ History and Links
plus Installation and Contact Hints
+
+
+ A Bit Of History
+
+You'll find gzip using the same compression
+that was written by Jean-loup Gailly
+for the Info-Zip Group
+whose Zip
+program is compatible with msdos PKZIP program from
+PK Ware. Then, in collaboration
+with Mark Adler
+he wrote the zlib
+compression library which was later standardized in the
+
+zlib RFCs, namely
+RFC 1950
+
+zlib 3.3,
+RFC 1951
+
+deflate 1.3 and
+RFC 1952
+
+gzip 4.3. The free algorithm can be found in lots of places
+today including PPP packet compression and PNG picture compression.
+
+ Installation
+
+ Contact
+
+ Links
+
+ ZZIP Referentials
Where is it used.
+
+ GPL Rant
+
+
+ The GPL/LGPL do not have a clause like MPL and others to notify the
+ original author about certain usages of the library - that's a pity
+ since I do not get to know many of the areas where zziplib has come
+ to be used. I can only ask you to send me an e-mail, so I can put a
+ link from here to your project. Within thousands of downloads less
+ than a handful of people wrote to me - mostly for having found a bug
+ or having a feature request. Be nice, and write even if you have had
+ successfully implanted zziplib in your project... I love to hear that ;-)
+
+ Although the library has not been written focusing on game data, + it has it greatest success just there. The SDL-rwops example did + further it by great amounts, people just like it to have the + thousand of small bitmaps to be assembled into one big dat file, + and put the AI scripts just next to them. ++ +
+ Here the most important feature has been the smalls size of this + library and the possible to use its autoconf script and even for + those who don't, it is easy to make a custom configuration. The + source code is easy to understand and therefore to customize for + the needs of the app/lib that wants to use the functionality. ++ +
+ For commercial usage, you can bind many small files into a zip + file for easier handling. Obfuscation and io-wrapping help + greatly to implant it in areas even far from posix-io grounds. ++ +