Library Usage

[marler8997]

I'd like to try out and possibly use this zip library in my "zigup" tool: https://github.com/marler8997/zigup

I'm currently using zarc but it's slow and the maintainer seems to be too busy to be able to maintain it.

This project just seems to be missing a few things to be able to use it as a library, such as making some of the functions public like extract_file and maybe creating an "index file" which provides a single module that exposes all the modules with public members, i.e.

hufman.zig

pub const deflate = @import("deflate.zig");
pub const huffman = @import("huffman.zig");
//...

[hdorio]

I'd like to [...] use this zip library

I'm sorry but hwzip.zig is not meant to be used as a library, it is merely educational.
Its purpose is to serve as code examples for the following article.

I'm currently using zarc but it's slow

hwzip.zig is also slow.

Currently zarc uses the old slow deflate decompressor (inflateStream) from the Zig standard library.
If you update zarc to use the new one (deflate.decompressor) zarc might become faster.

the maintainer seems to be too busy to be able to maintain it

I don't see any LICENSE file in the zipup repository, but my guess is that you will use a compatible license to the MIT license. So you could just copy zip.zig (and the zarc/LICENSE.md) from the zarc project and modify zip.zig to replace inflateStream.
Just for the meantime for someone to release a decent Zig library to read zip archives.

[marler8997]

Thanks for all the info that was very helpful. I'll consider your suggestions.