The first release of Archive::Zip is now available. Using ZIP archives should be pretty easy now.

Features
* Archive creation and extraction is supported with only a few lines of code
* Archives can be updated "in place" or dumped out to other files or pipes
* Files, symlinks, and directories are supported within archives
* Unix permission/mode bits are supported
* Unix user and group ownerships are supported.
* Unix last accessed and last modified times are supported.
* Entry extension (AKA extra field) implementations can be added on the fly.
* Unknown entry extension types are preserved during archive processing.
* Deflate and Store compression codecs are supported out of the box
* More compression codecs can be added on the fly