Request for Features/Ideas: A std.archive package

[Liam McSherry via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 17 May 2015 at 18:01:42 UTC, wabi wrote:
>
> It doesn't looks like a good idea to me (to port to D but more 
> simply to use this lib), just look to this:
>
> https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue
>
> over 100 open bug reports ! The maintainers of the D package 
> would have to follow this from near and it couldn't be well 
> kept in sync. with phobos.

I would still think that a "native" D implementation would be 
preferable to a dependency, although having some implementations 
in D doesn't preclude using libarchive for others.