Home

Welcome to the ZZipUpdate wiki!

About Me

Alex Zvenigorodsky

I'm very interested in hearing from anyone that's able to make use of this code or utility.

Please free to email questions, comments: zzupdate@azvenigo.com Or tweet: @azvenigo

Inspiration

I have found a few things missing in all commonly available zip utilities. While they focus on having robust collections of codecs, UIs, etc. None would let me view or extract individual files from enormous zip files on a server. I would have to download the entire thing first.

I also found that most utilities were written in the days of physical hard drives where seek time was a major bottleneck in throughput. With SSDs that's no longer the case, so it made sense to support multithreaded extraction.

And something else that I had wanted was to be able to have a simple but fast utility for an application to be able to self-update. Many platforms already support keeping applications up to date, but these frequently have a lot of prerequisites for publishing. I wanted for an application to be able to self-update with minimal requirements.