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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding pecl/zip to 5.2
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

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