Backslashes in released zip archives paths

[tansy]

Describe the bug

In relased zip archives tgere are backslashes in paths. Zip uses forward slash as path separator.

It's a problem add not all un/zip clients assume \ to be a /.

To Reproduce

Get the released archives and see the path names, like cmake\hwy\hwy-config-release.cmake.

Expected behavior

To use forward slashed as path separator in zips.

Environment

• OS: Linux

Additional context

specification is clear about that:

4.4.17.1 The name of the file, with optional relative path. The path stored MUST NOT contain a drive or device letter, or a leading slash. All slashes MUST be forward slashes '/'

[mo271]

Might this be cause by using an too old version of Powershell, see https://github.com/PowerShell/Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive/issues/48 ? Is this still a problem in the released arxives of v0.11.0?

[tansy]

Is this still a problem in the released arxives of v0.11.0?

Yes.

$ unzip -l jxl-x64-windows.zip 
Archive:  jxl-x64-windows.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
      824  09-13-2024 07:19   cmake\hwy\hwy-config-release.cmake
     2827  09-13-2024 07:18   cmake\hwy\hwy-config-version.cmake
     4344  09-13-2024 07:19   cmake\hwy\hwy-config.cmake
      311  09-13-2024 07:18   pkgconfig\libbrotlicommon.pc
      339  09-13-2024 07:18   pkgconfig\libbrotlidec.pc
      339  09-13-2024 07:18   pkgconfig\libbrotlienc.pc
      278  09-13-2024 07:18   pkgconfig\libhwy.pc
      362  09-13-2024 07:19   pkgconfig\libjxl.pc
      332  09-13-2024 07:19   pkgconfig\libjxl_cms.pc
      359  09-13-2024 07:19   pkgconfig\libjxl_threads.pc

Might this be cause by using an too old version of Powershell

Don't use Powershell then. Use Zip, like Info-ZIP.

[mo271]

Thanks for checking! I didn't quite understand if this can be reproduced with an up-to-date version of powershell or not.

What version did you use here?

[tansy]

What version did you use here?

As can be seen in modification time v0.11.0 from 09-13-2024.

[mo271]

Ah, I meant "what version of PowerShell?"

[tansy]

I don't use Powershell. In Linux?

And what it has to do with me? You, I mean a in a repo, produce this file. I only point out its problems, problems that user/s have - when unpacking this archive can produce files with backslashes in names. I can only assume that these backslashes meant to be path separators, but they're not.

[mo271]

Sorry for the confusion! I didn't read carefully enough. In any case, I investigated the problem, and the root cause is an older of Compress-Arxive we used for the releases. We plan now to switch to 7z, where the problem with the slashes will not be present. See #3852

[tansy]

We plan now to switch to 7z

Zip (InfoZip) would be just fine. Actually it was 7zip having trouble with that zip file. InfoZip warned about the problem but unpacked it correctly, I mean with 'intended' paths.