Extract ZIP (or TAR) files

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• talis Guru

  September 2013

  It seems like there are lots of free lua libraries. But they are not pure lua files. So it seems you should have to write some plugin to use them.
  http://www.keplerproject.org/luazip/
  I didn't dig so much so maybe there is some way without plugin:D

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• OZApps Guru

  September 2013

  There was a pure library for tar extraction written for another framework a while ago, one of the issue with a pure Lua library is speed. So to get some usable speeds, you might require native code or C.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  On the first look http://www.keplerproject.org/luazip/ seems like the right way
  If many of you guys are interested, I can play with it as a Gideros plugin cause right now I can't tell if it will work or not because of dependencies on 3rd party libraries

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• andrecaribe Member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  The fact is that I need to extract. This is an interesting feature to generate upgrade packages for games/applications. I think that would be a useful plugin for Gideros. I'm interested in helping or creates it, but I miss a detailed documentation to make multiplatform plugins.

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• andrecaribe Member

  September 2013

  @OZApps, you remember the name of the library? It can be a quick fix and not definitive to my problem.

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• OZApps Guru

  September 2013 Accepted Answer

  @andrecaribe, it was made by Danny, I am not 100% sure about the name, but I guess it was called tar module, the link should be http://www.infuseddreams.com/apps/Tar_Lib.zip
  
  However since Danny is shutting shop, it might not be available any more at this link.

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• andrecaribe Member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  Ty @OZApps! I create an project on Github to extract .tar files. https://github.com/andrecaribe/gideros-untar

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