Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:24784 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 16379 invoked by uid 1010); 20 Jul 2006 22:24:03 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 16363 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2006 22:24:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jul 2006 22:24:02 -0000 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: rasmus@lerdorf.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 204.11.219.139 lerdorf.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([204.11.219.139:41496] helo=lerdorf.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.3 r(11751M)) with ESMTP id 2B/92-29121-1DDFFB44 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:04:02 -0400 Received: from [207.126.233.18] (rasmus2.corp.yahoo.com [207.126.233.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by lerdorf.com (8.13.7/8.13.7/Debian-1) with ESMTP id k6KM3u0K021744; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:03:57 -0700 Message-ID: <44BFFDC5.1010008@lerdorf.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:03:49 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Macintosh/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <20060719173451.114d4528@pierre-u64> <1184012601.20060720095137@marcus-boerger.de> <44BFF61C.2040104@lerdorf.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding pecl/zip to 5.2 From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf) Pierre wrote: > Hello, > > On 7/20/06, Rasmus Lerdorf 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? 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. -Rasmus