Re: Adding pecl/zip to 5.2

Hello Pierre, Friday, July 21, 2006, 12:10:02 AM, you wrote: > Hello, > On 7/21/06, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: >> Pierre wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > On 7/20/06, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Well, in the US at least, Zip says Zip Code to me. Zip compression >> >> would be my second guess so it isn't completely obvious. >> > >> > It is a ZipCode, exactly. >> >> And by the same logic, a Zip archive is a ZipArchive. Do a web search >> for "zip" and you will find that half of the first set of results are >> about zip archives and the other half are about zip codes. Why are you >> assuming zip automatically means zip archive to people? > Because they wil have to enable it manually, after having read: > "Include Zip read/write support" > I doubt anyone sane is going to active this option and think it can > then read and write Zip in php. >> It certainly doesn't to me, but perhaps I am too much of a Unix guy so zip archives >> have never been of much use. > I'm an unix guy too, let see what my current lovely unix knows about zip: > man zip > " zip, zipcloak, zipnote, zipsplit - package and compress (archive) files..." So you're class does only allow to compress, is that what you are trying to explain? > My other box has unzip too, I'm not sure what how I can unmake a zip > code though ;-) > I'm starting to wonder who are our targets, the mid americans or the > programmers? As a programmer i saw a huge amount of 'zip' columns in databases as well as tables that match zip codes to names, which were named 'zip'. And a lot of people actually use table names for class names. Best regards, Marcus