GZip File Reading

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Mar 10 17:29:55 PST 2011


On 3/10/2011 6:24 AM, dsimcha wrote:
> On 3/10/2011 4:59 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/9/2011 8:53 PM, dsimcha wrote:
>>> I'd like to get some comments on what an appropriate API design and
>>> implementation for writing gzipped files would be. Two key
>>> requirements are that
>>> it must be as easy to use as std.stdio.File and it must be easy to
>>> extend to
>>> support other single-file compression formats like bz2.
>>
>> Use ranges.
>
> Ok, obviously. The point was trying to figure out how to maximize the reuse of
> the infrastructure from std.stdio.File.

It's not so obvious based on my reading of the other comments. For example, we 
should not be inventing a streaming interface.


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