Request for Features/Ideas: A std.archive package

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/17/15 9:32 AM, Liam McSherry wrote:
> I'd like to know whether there would be demand for such a package, and
> what the community would want in terms of the API and features. I
> haven't yet written any code for the package as the API is going to be
> one of the most important parts, and I thought it would be best to have
> agreement on what is wanted before starting on it.

That'd be great. A few thoughts: (a) should use ranges through and 
through; (b) might be interesting to allow libarchive 
http://www.libarchive.org as engine. That's BSD licensed, but we can 
interface with it. Or at least use it as reference for low-level design. 
-- Andrei