[delphizip] Storing DLLs are resource

  • From: James Turner <james.d.h.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:56:11 +0000

Why use deflate?
Surely an exe compressor such as UPX is more suited to this solution

James Turner


> 
> From: "R. Peters" <russellpeters@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2003/04/21 Mon PM 10:54:13 GMT
> To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [delphizip] Proposal for later release
> 
> 
> toying with idea of  storing the deflated dll's as a resource in
> ZipMaster/ZipBuilder.
> Idea works fine but was wondering whether to use dll's as temporary files
> (unzipped as needed) or to unzip them to DllDirectory if they don't already
> exist (but what about if old version exists?)
> The problem is that don't really like the idea of writing to the
> DllDirectory!
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Russell Peters
> http://www.users.bigpond.com/russellpeters/delphizip.html
> 
> don't worry about needing UnzDll to inflate the dll's as I have converted an
> inflate from the early sfx routines (about 5k).
> 
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