zlib package of ms windows could handle .zip archives,it compiles minizip into the zip library.
the library libz on FreeBSD does not compiles minizip. Should we merge minizip into libz ? 
Minizip's licence is the same to zlib,so there is no licence barrie.
minizip has only three samll  *.c files.If we merge minizip into libz, libz's size  would not be larger too much.

btw,I maintain some servers both on windpws and FreeBSD now.They use zlib on windows,and I have compiled minizip on FreeBSD for my projects.I hope that minizip 
will be merged into libz on FreeBSD.
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Firstly, zlib is one thing and one thing only, namely the reference
implementation of Jean-Loup Gailly's gzip (aka. deflate) compression
algorithm.  See zlib.net.

Secondly, Microsoft don't maintain official packages of third-party
software, so there is no such thing as "zlib package of ms windows".
Various projects (Cygwin, MSYS, MinGW, GNUWin32) ship pre-compiled zlib
binaries for Windows, but none of the four I mentioned include zip

No.  Why should we?

If you want to create or unpack .zip files on FreeBSD, use tar(1).

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To be fair, bsdtar(1) on my 8-STABLE box says it can read but not that
it can create zipfiles.
It it can create them that would be handy.

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Huh, I thought Tim had fixed that long ago.  Well, there's always
/usr/ports/archivers/zip, or you can send patches to kientzle@ :)

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The support for zip creation hasn't been merged yet.

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I finally got around to merging this.

After rebuilding libarchive and tar, tar -c --format=zip
should work.

Note:  The zip writer does have room for improvement; if
anyone's interested in a side project, it would
be great to get ZIP64 support and a few other details
filled in.

Tim
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Just to be clear, I finally got around to merging
this from the Googlecode repository to FreeBSD-CURRENT.
I'll merge it into 8-STABLE in a few more weeks.

Cheers,

Tim

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