[delphizip] Re: Beta 1.90 almost ready

  • From: Edwin Yip <edwin.yip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:12:11 +0800

Hi Russell,
Happy new year!

Thank you for the detailed information about the development, your plan for
supporting earlier versions of Delphi is appreciated indeed.

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 4:59 AM, RPeters <rpeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 31/12/2009 8:11 PM, Edwin Yip wrote:
> > Hi Russell,
> > Great news and this will be my best gift for the upcoming new year ;)
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:56 AM, RPeters<rpeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I have uploaded preliminary beta but mostly to be able to set up the
> >> site properly.
> >>
> >> It will be updated in a few days although mostly it should be ok - a few
> >> issues have shown up while I am attempting to get some 'help' written
> >> (or updated) for it.
> >>
> >> http://www.delphizip.org
> >> http://v190.delphizip.org
> >>
> >> Russell Peters
> >>
> >>
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> The latest uploaded version should work well - it has been extensively
> tested, mainly thanks to Roger, but I am sure there are things we have
> missed.
>
> I know there are still a few things not working as I believe they should
> but we are sorting them out.
>
> Because of the zip64 requirements many things had to be changed so we
> decided that this version would not worry too much about not being as
> compatible with previous versions, hopefully future versions will break
> less code.
>
> A lot of work went into handling UTF8 and them Embarcadero decided to
> bring out Unicode so some sort of compromise had to be reached, of
> course this meant much more conditional code than I would prefer but
> that could not be helped unless we dropped support for earlier compilers
> which I did not want to do.
>
> I have a lot of work yet to do cleaning the code to make it more
> readable (especially the dll code which frankly is a mess).
> Russell Peters
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Best Regards,
Edwin Yip

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