zipios is c++ library for handling zip files which seems interesting, and is a requirement for abiword openwriter plugin From the website: Zipios++ is a java.util.zip-like C++ library for reading and writing Zip files. Access to individual entries is provided through standard C++ iostreams. A simple read-only virtual file system that mounts regular directories and zip files is also provided. I put this as a bug on zlib because I didn't know better.
refiling against abiword... is it useful for AbiWord?
Yes, it is. I forgot that abiword is shipped with redhat :) The OpenWriter abiword plugin requires zipios. Since abiword, with the openwriter plugin, is able to get the gist of open writer docs, it is an indirect dependency of abiword. thanks, rms
We don't ship the plugin and don't generally add libraries unless there are things actually depending on them which we ship.