[Cuis-dev] [DEFECT] Can't zip Cuis' sources file

Gerald Klix cuis.01 at klix.ch
Thu Nov 23 10:29:20 PST 2023


Hi Juan,

I was bit hasty, zipping 
5922-FixedClassMethodPushDown-TomásSpognardi-2023Jul09-20h38m-TS.001.cs.st
still does not work. I renamed this file and forgot to undo that change.


Best regards,

Gerald



On 11/23/23 6:59 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi Juan,
>
> short feedback: Everything works now.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
> On 11/23/23 4:28 PM, Gerald Klix wrote:
>> Hi Juan,
>>
>> thanks a lot for your efforts.
>> I will test it as soon as I have checked in my latest work.
>>
>> Did I get this right, this sample text ('ლორემ იფსუმ დოლორ')
>> is Georgian, isn't it? I wonder what it means.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/23/23 3:17 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>>> Hi Gerald,
>>>
>>> The simple fact is that ZIP files don't store "strings", they only 
>>> store bytes. There were a few places in the Compression.pck.st that 
>>> still made the old assumption that Strings and ByteArrays were "the 
>>> same". I fixed those I found. I also added #addBytes:as:, that is 
>>> what you usually want.
>>>
>>> Now, the following examples work:
>>>
>>> ZipArchive new
>>>     zipFileComment: 'ZIP file test';
>>>     addString: 'ლორემ იფსუმ დოლორ' as: 'someText.bin';
>>>     writeToFileNamed: 'someText.zip'.
>>>
>>> ZipArchive new
>>>     zipFileComment: 'ZIP file test';
>>>     addBytes: 'ლორემ იფსუმ დოლორ' asUtf8Bytes as: 'someTextBytes2.bin';
>>>     writeToFileNamed: 'someTextBytes2.zip'.
>>>
>>> Additionally, this example also works:
>>>
>>> ZipArchive new
>>>     zipFileComment: 'ZIP file test';
>>>     addFile: 
>>> 'Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/CoreUpdates/5922-FixedClassMethodPushDown-TomásSpognardi-2023Jul09-20h38m-TS.001.cs.st' 
>>> as: 'testOutx.bin';
>>>     writeToFileNamed: 'testbinx.zip'.
>>>
>>> So, I guess the problem you had with this file got also fixed along 
>>> the way.
>>>
>>> All 3 zip files seem to unzip properly on my Mac.
>>>
>>> Please test again, and keep reporting further problems.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> On 11/22/2023 8:13 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>> Hi Juan,
>>>>
>>>> I got tried to work around this problem by reading the
>>>> license files in binary mode and converting them to a string.
>>>> However this leads to as CRC error:
>>>>
>>>>  extracting: LICENSES.txt             bad CRC 46294e2b (should be 
>>>> c42f8133)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As promised I skimmed the ZIP file spec at 
>>>> https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT
>>>> I only saw provisions for UTF-8 file names.
>>>> Indeed we have problems storing such files; adding
>>>> this one 
>>>> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/blob/master/CoreUpdates/5922-FixedClassMethodPushDown-Tom%C3%A1sSpognardi-2023Jul09-20h38m-TS.001.cs.st
>>>> yields the following error when listing the contents withunzip -l
>>>>
>>>>      1195  2023-07-19 20:39 
>>>> Image/CoreUpdates/5922-FixedClassMethodPushDown-TomásSpognardi-2023Jul09-20h38m-TS.001.cs.s
>>>> error:  expected central file header signature not found (file #459).
>>>>   (please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in 
>>>> the
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *The biggest problem however is this one:
>>>>
>>>> *Execute the following code snippet:
>>>>
>>>> 'testIn.bin' asFileEntry forceWriteStreamDo: [ :ws |
>>>>     ws binary.
>>>>     ws nextPutAll: #[16rF1 16rF7] ].
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ZipArchive new
>>>>     zipFileComment: 'ZIP file test';
>>>>     addFile: 'testIn.bin' as: 'testOut.bin';
>>>>     writeToFileNamed: 'testbin.zip'
>>>>
>>>> Then unzip the file with:
>>>>
>>>> bear at speedy ~/s/c/Environments> unzip testbin.zip
>>>> Archive:  testbin.zip
>>>> ZIP file test
>>>>   inflating: testOut.bin
>>>>
>>>> This yields the following:
>>>>
>>>> bear at speedy ~/s/c/Environments> ls -l test*.bin
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 bear bear 2 Nov 22 12:01 testIn.bin
>>>> -rw-rw-rw- 1 bear bear 4 Nov 22 12:01 testOut.bin
>>>>
>>>> Invoking hexdump on both files shows a "slight" difference:
>>>>
>>>> bear at speedy ~/s/c/Environments> hexdump testIn.bin
>>>> 0000000 f7f1
>>>> 0000002
>>>> bear at speedy ~/s/c/Environments> hexdump testOut.bin
>>>> 0000000 b1c3 b7c3
>>>> 0000004
>>>>
>>>> Obviously some UTF8 conversion happened.
>>>> Needless to say that ZipArchive can't be used to compress binary
>>>> files and thus I can't create a distribution of Haver
>>>> with my current tool-set.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Gerald
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/22/23 10:21 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>>> Thank's Juan,
>>>>>
>>>>> this works now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alas when I tried to create a new Haver release I ran into another 
>>>>> problem.
>>>>> I also add strings to the ZIP-archive, for example a generated 
>>>>> file that contains
>>>>> all the contents of all the license files found. The resulting 
>>>>> string contains
>>>>> Unicode code-points, which makes the CRC computation fail.
>>>>>
>>>>> In essence when sending #updateCrc:from:to:in: the primitive fails 
>>>>> – for
>>>>> obvious reasons – and the failure code kicks in. This in turn 
>>>>> (indirectly) sends #bitXor:
>>>>> to a UnicodePoint instance, which results in a DNU exception.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will try to do some research on how UTF8 data is supposed
>>>>> to be stored in a ZIP file.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank's again and Best Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Gerald
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/21/23 9:12 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/14/2023 10:20 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi all, Hi Juan,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The following snippet does not terminate (within reasonable 
>>>>>>> time, 20h):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (z1 := ZipArchive new) zipFileComment: 'ZIP test'.
>>>>>>> z1
>>>>>>>     addFile: SourceFiles first fileEntry as: 'f1';
>>>>>>>     writeToFileNamed: 'test.zip';
>>>>>>>     close.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Adding small test files, created like this: echo test > test.txt ,
>>>>>>> however does work:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (z3 := ZipArchive new) zipFileComment: 'ZIP test'.
>>>>>>> z3
>>>>>>>     addFile: Smalltalk imageName as: 'f3';
>>>>>>>     writeToFileNamed: 'test.zip';
>>>>>>>     close.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gerald
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Gerald,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just pushed a fix to GitHub. Thanks for reporting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>



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