Library Development: What to finish/flesh out?

[Walter Bright]

On 3/17/2011 8:33 AM, dsimcha wrote:
> 8.  GZip support in std.file:  I'll leave the stream stuff for someone else,
> but just simple stuff like read(), write(), append() IMHO belongs in std.file.
>   Completion state:  Not started, but this is the easiest of the bunch to
> implement.  (Phobos candidate)

I'd definitely like to see gzip support in Phobos. But it shouldn't be in 
std.file, as there are many compression schemes in use besides gzip, and such 
should be composable with the file interface using ranges.

In fact, gzip has nothing necessarily to do with files. It 
compresses/decompresses a stream (a range in D). Whether that is a file or 
something else is quite irrelevant to gzip. DMD, for example, uses a simple 
compressor for long symbol names.

I suggest making a package for compressors, and then have gzip be a module 
within that, as in:

    std.compressor.gzip