To be honest, I am quite surprised Qt sill offers no support for working with zip archive – not only is zip the most popular (arguably the best but still) archive format, but there is a huge array of other file formats that use zip, MS Word and OpenOffice documents for example.
I am aware of QuaZIP, but it is still a third party solution, albeit a simple wrapper. Considering internally Qt already almost supports zip (for stuff like png) why isn’t the zip format officially supported?
Integrating QuaZIP or a new implementation to support the zip format will undoubtedly be a valuable addition to Qt, allowing to create archives as well as open archives and thus many other popular formats.
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