Phobos Wish List/Next in Review Queue?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Nov 23 18:26:14 PST 2011


On 11/19/2011 7:02 PM, dsimcha wrote:
> * Compression/archiving. (Opening standard compressed/archived file formats
> needs to just work. This includes at least zip, gzip, tar and bzip2. Of course,
> zip already is available and gzip is supported by the zlib module but with a
> crufty C API. At least gzip and bzip2, which are stream-based as opposed to
> file-based, should be handled via streams, which means that streams block
> compression/archiving. Also, since tar and zip are both file based, they should
> probably be handled by the same API, which might mean deprecating std.zip and
> rewriting it.)

They should be range based, not stream based.


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