Can I use the Compression framework to compress / archive multiple files into one file? Compression is not important, I just want to be able to create a single file that can be sent somewhere and extracted into a folder with those files.
If not the Compression framework, what other options do I have? I prefer to use built-in libraries and frameworks to minimize dependencies in my project, and I am find with me writing a lot of code for this.
Can I use the Compression framework to compress / archive multiple files into one file?
I’m unfamiliar with “Compression framework”. Is that an Apple thing? Or a third-party thing?
The closest Apple thing that I can think of is
<compression.h>.zipIf you want to work with archives, there isn’t really a good answer. You have various options on macOS, but if your focus is on iOS then you’ll need to write or acquire your own library for this.
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let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"Can I use the Compression framework to compress / archive multiple files into one file?
I’m unfamiliar with “Compression framework”. Is that an Apple thing? Or a third-party thing?
The closest Apple thing that I can think of is
<compression.h>.zipIf you want to work with archives, there isn’t really a good answer. You have various options on macOS, but if your focus is on iOS then you’ll need to write or acquire your own library for this.
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Quinn “The Eskimo!”
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let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"The reason I spoke about Compression as a framework, is because of this page.
Yeah, that’s weird. It seems that the new documentation system labels every top-level API as a framework, even ones that aren’t packaged as a framework but are instead libraries. Personally I find that both grating and potentially misleading, and I’ve filed a bug to see if we can get that changed (r. 48230573).
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let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@apple.com"