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TL;DR: QuaZip is mostly abandoned until someone steps in as the new maintainer.
This project started a long time ago, circa 2005, when I needed something to work with ZIP archives in one of my Qt projects, and realized that no library is compatible with the Qt API. So I decided to make my own.
Since then, I've implemented all I've wanted, and the project became semi-popular. People actually started using it. Well, that's all good, that's what open source is for. I also kept using it, so I was still in the flow and could afford to spend some time maintaining it.
But then, something major happened. I changed my job (for the first time in 18 years!) and moved to another country at that. My life changed a lot, and among the changes are two things: I have much less free time now, and I barely ever deal with C/C++, I work mostly with Java and Kotlin now. As a consequence, even compiling and testing QuaZip before releasing it became a pain. I don't even have the necessary environment set up any more because I don't need it for anything else. And the thing with open source is, since I'm doing it for free, I'm not exactly motivated to sacrifice my valuable time and spend a lot of effort on something I no longer need myself.
So unless a new maintainer shows up, this project can be considered pretty much abandoned. Feel free to fork it and patch it for your own needs, of course, and if you'd like to become the new maintainer, well, just drop a comment here, I'll grant you the necessary rights.