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Packager option to not produce a zip file

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start with packaging/packager, especially the option handling around lines 34 and 54-57 and the zip creation around lines 184-185. Confirm how the existing options are parsed, then verify that the new option skips zip creation and removes the need for zip on the packaging system.

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Description

The packager currently is hard-set to produce a zip file:

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-cpp/blob/1129e531bae450b6fb78ad5fc08d6222ceb9f68d/packaging/packager#L184-L185

It would be useful to add an option to skip the zipping (which will also make it unnecessary to have zip installed on the packaging system).

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