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@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +Todo list (last updated 12 June 2008). + +Features for next official version: + +- Extended attributes for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. +- Win32 ACL rewrite to use backup api to create new and more useful extra + field (need unzip support) (Kai). +- Allow -d@ to read in a list of names to delete (11/17/2005). +- AES encryption (3/19/05). + +Features that may make the next release: + +- Allow reading in list of files using @filename. +- When -R, -x, or -i pattern ends in a directory add / to the end + (11/5/2004 Nehal). +- Decide if -R, -i and -x should use external rather than internal patterns. + Also, change pattern matching to not do ex2in() and then in2ex() if + appropriate. (12/26/2005 SMS) +- Though Unicode paths have been implemented and tested, Unicode comments + are not yet supported (except for comments on UTF-8 native systems which + are supported). +- Verbose mode -v may still need work. + +- Add C# example for Zip 3.0 (need to be converted to new DLLs) - original + C# example added with note. +- Path Prefix maybe, so entries added to an archive can have a directory + path string prepended to each path so can zip multiple drives and avoid + name conflicts (4/17/2006). +- UNC paths like \\server\path (4/26/2005). +- Support for other languages maybe. + +- Add About page option similar to -h2 and -v but lists Info-ZIP + information (could be -sa) (4/29/2006). +- Update utilities ZipSplit, ZipNote, and ZipCloak to handle split archives. +- Update ziperr and finish if needed. +- Review memory allocation and fill in memory leaks if any. +- Enhance -FF to fix common problems such as archives ftp in text mode + and fixing checksums so entries can be extracted if that makes + sense (6/17/2007). +- Add \ to / conversion in zipsplit to fix problem in + 1/29/2004 email. +- Encryption bug with small stored file (12/27/2005) (fixed?). + +- When updating large archives with few entries being + updated maybe display something in large periods of + quiet (1/23/2006). +- Windows OEM comments (5/17/2006). +- Example of using MVS zip and unzip (3/30/2004) (Need one). +- UTF-8 comments need to be implemented (6/17/2007) +- Maybe convert ../ in archive (5/20/2006). +- Per so many buffers dll callback (12/23/2005 Ale). +- Allow rename stdin "-" to something else (12/27/2005 gregor). +- Check for possible buffer overrun weaknesses while reading zip files. +- Do Active Template Library (ATL) (4/27/2005). +- Flush Win16 support - to be determined (Mike). +- Way to convert file names on input, converting foo.c to dir/foo_bar.c + for instance (4/8/2004, 3/12/2004). +- French WiZ (not a Zip thing actually but dependent on zip and unzip). +- Then there is that wierd ^D being converted to \000 error reported + in 6/21/2003 email when Zip is outputted into a pipe on Windows ports. + +Old list: + +Main features still missing for next official version (last updated 2/11/2001): + +- what about the binary/text detection ? (seems done) +- -b and -t options in help screen (covered in -h2) +- findfirst/findnext and after that LSSTAT (performance!!) +- use IS_EXEC from djgpp stat.h +- use install in unix/Makefile instead of mkdir -p, look at install sh script. +- #elif for those ports that can handle it. +- what about zopen vs. fopen ? +- Add zcreate or zfcreate for win32. +- Assembler stuff in match.S (subexpressions) +- zipping huge files (> 2G, unsigned 32bit) (done) +- Testsuite for zip and unzip (John D. Mitchell) +- make a version.c or version.h that includes all the compiler names +- run utils with dmalloc(). +- what to do with zip -F and zip -FF (readzipfile2()) ? (done?) +- profiling of the code +- multi disk zip files (could be done) +- zipfile modification tool (Greg) +- Implement -- option (Thomas Klauser, wiz@danbala.tuwien.ac.at) (could be done) +- don't add files with "Archive bit" or add files with "Archive bit" + (uwe.becher@metronet.de) (could be done with -AS and -AC) +- 32 bit file attributes +- generate output without having to seek at all (this seems to be stream output) +- remove contractions from zip error messages, make them clearer (Steve) +- display "[text]" for ascii files when not quiet (no -q) (Timo Salmi) +- does zipnote accept names with version number? +- for a WORM, zip should create temp file only when updating; new archives + should be created directly. +- APPNOTE.TXT specifies "4) The entries in the central directory may + not necessarily be in the same order that files appear in the zipfile" + but readzipfile() relies on same order. (new read does not, and now + the read for -FF searches for central directory matches rather than + rely on the order) +- on Mac, MPW C 3.3.1 requires #if (a || b) ["#if a || b" taken as "#if a"] +- on Unix, let -S be "include non-regular files without reading from them" + (as pkzip on Unix). This requires unzip support. +- zip -l should do ebcdic->ascii translation on CMS and MVS +- zip as subroutine (zdig/241) (some work done on this) +- accept k and M in zipsplit +- store / (part of file name) as ! in OS/2 (problem only with -E ?) +- in addition to -l (LF to CR LF) and -ll (CR LF to LF) add -lc + (LF to CR LF but CR LF remains unchanged) + +Known bugs: + +- On VMS, zip fails reading some files with "byte record too large for + user's buffer". You must use the "-V" option for such files. + (many changes to VMS so may be fixed) + +- on MSDOS, zip386.exe does not like "zip -bc: foo ..." + +- on MSDOS, zip386.exe is sometimes much slower than zip.exe. This is + probably a problem with DJGPP (to be investigated). + +- on NT with C shell, zip should not do file name expansion again. + +- zip zipfile ... ignores existing zipfile if name does not have an extension + (except for the -A option, generally used on self-extracting files). + (archives should probably have extensions. Things like archive.jar work) + +- For an sfx file without extension, "zip -A sfx" works but "zip sfx -A" + doesn't. (because options were required first, but now both OK) + +- When storing files in a zipfile (-0), zip marks all of them as binary. + +- On VMS, some indexed files are not restored correctly after zip -V and unzip. + (This is now known to be a problem of UnZip. The workaround for Zip 2.2 + and newer is to use PK-style VMS extra fields; this is now the default. + NOTE that UnZip 5.32 has been fixed [971019]!) (many VMS changes so + this may be fixed) + +- zip and unzip should use the same pattern matching rules, particularly + on MSDOS and OS/2. On OS/2, "zip foo *.*" should also match files + without extension. + Partially DONE (OS/2 "*.*" matches "*".) + +- there should be a way to avoid updating archive members (only addition + of new files allowed) |