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 > >> > >> > >> ----------- > >> To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail > >> message to: > >> delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> and put the word unsubscribe in the subject > 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 > ----------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail > message to: > delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > and put the word unsubscribe in the subject. > -- Best Regards, Edwin Yip Mind Mapping is as Effortless as Typing http://www.InnovationGear.com ----------- To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail message to: delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and put the word unsubscribe in the subject.