Subject: Adding --no-add-suffix to zip patch

From: Adam Sjøgren <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 19:57:19 +0100

Adding a '--no-add-suffix' option to zip 3.0 is not too bad:

diff -u orig/zip-3.0/globals.c chan/zip-3.0/globals.c
--- orig/zip-3.0/globals.c	2008-05-25 19:26:38.000000000 +0200
+++ chan/zip-3.0/globals.c	2023-02-06 19:42:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@
 int noisy = 1;                /* 0=quiet operation */
 int extra_fields = 1;         /* 0=create minimum, 1=don't copy old, 2=keep old */
 int use_descriptors = 0;      /* 1=use data descriptors 12/29/04 */
+int no_add_suffix = 0;        /* 1=do not add suffix .zip to archive names without . */
 int zip_to_stdout = 0;        /* output zipfile to stdout 12/30/04 */
 int allow_empty_archive = 0;  /* if no files, create empty archive anyway 12/28/05 */
 int copy_only = 0;            /* 1=copying archive entries only */
diff -u orig/zip-3.0/zip.c chan/zip-3.0/zip.c
--- orig/zip-3.0/zip.c	2023-02-06 19:49:42.000000000 +0100
+++ chan/zip-3.0/zip.c	2023-02-06 19:47:26.000000000 +0100
@@ -1942,6 +1942,7 @@
 #ifdef UNICODE_TEST
 #define o_sC            0x146
 #endif
+#define o_nas           0x147

 /* the below is mainly from the old main command line
@@ -2042,6 +2043,7 @@
     {"N",  "notes",       o_NO_VALUE,       o_NOT_NEGATABLE, 'N',  "add notes as entry comments"},
 #endif
     {"o",  "latest-time", o_NO_VALUE,       o_NOT_NEGATABLE, 'o',  "use latest entry time as archive time"},
+    {"",   "no-add-suffix", o_NO_VALUE,     o_NOT_NEGATABLE, o_nas, "do not add .zip suffix to archive name without ."},
     {"O",  "output-file", o_REQUIRED_VALUE, o_NOT_NEGATABLE, 'O',  "set out zipfile different than in zipfile"},
     {"p",  "paths",       o_NO_VALUE,       o_NOT_NEGATABLE, 'p',  "store paths"},
     {"P",  "password",    o_REQUIRED_VALUE, o_NOT_NEGATABLE, 'P',  "encrypt entries, option value is password"},
@@ -2378,6 +2380,7 @@
   before = 0;             /* 0=ignore, else exclude files before this time */
   after = 0;              /* 0=ignore, else exclude files newer than this time */
 
+  no_add_suffix = 0       /* 0=add .zip if no . as usual, else use archive name unchanged */
   special = ".Z:.zip:.zoo:.arc:.lzh:.arj"; /* List of special suffixes */
   key = NULL;             /* Scramble password if scrambling */
   key_needed = 0;         /* Need scramble password */
@@ -3299,6 +3302,11 @@
           break;
 #endif
 
+        case o_nas:
+          no_add_suffix = 1;
+          break;
+
+
         case o_NON_OPTION_ARG:
           /* not an option */
           /* no more options as permuting */
@@ -3340,8 +3348,14 @@
 #endif /* !MACOS && !WINDLL */
               {
                 /* name of zipfile */
-                if ((zipfile = ziptyp(value)) == NULL) {
-                  ZIPERR(ZE_MEM, "was processing arguments");
+                if (no_add_suffix) {
+                  zipfile = value;
+                }
+                else {
+                  if ((zipfile = ziptyp(value)) == NULL) {
+                    ZIPERR(ZE_MEM, "was processing arguments");
+                  }
+                  free(value);
                 }
                 /* read zipfile if exists */
                 /*
@@ -3349,7 +3363,6 @@
                   ZIPERR(r, zipfile);
                 }
                 */
-                free(value);
               }
               if (show_what_doing) {
                 fprintf(mesg, "sd: Zipfile name '%s'\n", zipfile);
diff -u orig/zip-3.0/zip.h chan/zip-3.0/zip.h
--- orig/zip-3.0/zip.h	2008-05-25 19:23:22.000000000 +0200
+++ chan/zip-3.0/zip.h	2023-02-06 19:43:41.000000000 +0100
@@ -442,6 +442,7 @@
  extern int use_privileges;     /* use security privilege overrides */
 #endif
 extern int use_descriptors;     /* use data descriptors (extended headings) */
+extern int no_add_suffix;       /* do not add suffix .zip to archive names without . */
 extern int allow_empty_archive; /* if no files, create empty archive anyway */
 extern int copy_only;           /* 1 = copy archive with no changes */
 extern int zip_to_stdout;       /* output to stdout */

But getting something like that accepted and distributed, and for Emacs
to tell whether the installed zip has that option or not, seems like a
lot of work.