misc/quazip/doc/faq.dox
author Xeli
Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:48:35 +0100
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automated the build process some more, users must add the android ndk, sdk and fpc dir to their $PATH and cmake will do the rest, I still need a solution for the sdl dir. Subrepo's perhaps?
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/**
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 * \page faq QuaZip FAQ
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 *
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 * <!--
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 * \ref faq-GPL "Q. Is it possible to release an LGPL version of the QuaZip?"
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 *
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 * \ref faq-non-QIODevice "Q. Is there any way to use QuaZipFile in Qt where you are supposed to use normal (non-zipped) file, but not through QIODevice API?"
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 * \anchor faq-GPL Q. Is it possible to release an LGPL version of the
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 * QuaZip?
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 *
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 * A. I do not know much about licensing, so I can answer for sure, but
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 * QuaZip was developed using Open Source edition of Qt, so I see no
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 * way it could be released under anything except GPL.
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 *
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 * \anchor faq-non-QIODevice Q. Is there any way to use QuaZipFile in Qt
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 * where you are supposed to use normal (non-zipped) file, but not
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 * through QIODevice API?
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 *
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 * A. Usually not. For example, if you are passing file name to some
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 * database driver (like SQLite), Qt usually just passes this name down
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 * to the 3rd-party library, which is usually does not know anything
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 * about QIODevice and therefore there is no way to pass QuaZipFile as
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 * normal file. However, if we are talking about some place where you
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 * pass file name, and then indirectly use QFile to open it, then it is
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 * a good idea to make overloaded method, which accepts QIODevice
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 * pointer. Then you would be able to pass QuaZipFile as well as many
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 * other nice things such as QBuffer or QProcess.
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 **/