I would like to ask you about an interfaces of zip folder dynamic library - if they're known I would implement zip folders support. It was suggested to ask someone from wine development team to get more information about that. Please, take a look to the discussion in the wine group about that: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/browse_thread /thread/1b6f661308400d96/?hl=en# If you have an information about zip folders please let me know. btw: maybe an implementation of the such support is prohibited on Linux due to some restrictions with LZW algorithm? Or maybe Microsoft did not care about documenting this library? Unfortunately I am not found any information about this library in MSDN in the topics for developers.
Shouldn't such a functionality be implemented somewhere in Linux/BSD/MacOS/Solaris(like a FUSE filesystem)? If the os can mount zip files wine apps can use it too. Of course if some application uses zip folders directly then we need that implemented in wine.
As for the algorithms, I think wine can just call zlib.