Current VCLZip?

[uligerhardt 18]

Hello all!

 

We are using an "prehistoric" version (2.21 AFAICT) of VCLZip by Kevin Boylan together with Delphi 2007.

After finally making the switch to an Unicode version of Delphi we get some errors with invalid zip files and the like.

In the internet I found references to an Unicode aware version 4.50 but no way to to licence or download it.

Does anybody have any hints with this?

[Attila Kovacs 631]

To which Delphi? Since XE2 there is System.Zip.TZipFile which would be the right way to move to.

[uligerhardt 18]

5 minutes ago, Attila Kovacs said:

To which Delphi? Since XE2 there is System.Zip.TZipFile which would be the right way to move to.

XE6 for now. I know about System.Zip.TZipFile, but IIRC it didn't have all features we use from VCLZip. I should look again. 

[Attila Kovacs 631]

Well, there is ZipForge then. It's still maintained.

[Angus Robertson 577]

The old download page exists, http://vclzip.bizland.com/v4src.htm but all the source downloads are password protected and you can not buy a new license.  But maybe someone not using theirs would sell it?  I still use VCLZip.   Not sure if Kevin is still around, would have been good if it had been made open source. 

 

Angus

 

 

[uligerhardt 18]

11 minutes ago, Angus Robertson said:

The old download page exists, http://vclzip.bizland.com/v4src.htm but all the source downloads are password protected and you can not buy a new license.  But maybe someone not using theirs would sell it?  I still use VCLZip.   Not sure if Kevin is still around, would have been good if it had been made open source. 

 

Angus

 

 

FWIW: I sent an e-mail to his bigfoot address and got an "Undeliverable". 😞

Edited April 1, 2022 by uligerhardt

[Leif Uneus 43]

@uligerhardtHave you tried SynZip by Synopse?

[uligerhardt 18]

1 hour ago, Leif Uneus said:

@uligerhardtHave you tried SynZip by Synopse?

Not yet, But the Synopse stuff is usually good, so I'll might have a look.

[Steve Maughan 26]

And don't forget about Abbrevia:

 

https://github.com/TurboPack/Abbrevia

 

 

[Fr0sT.Brutal 900]

https://github.com/Fr0sT-Brutal/awesome-pascal#compression

😉