Reed Solomon codes

Andre Pany andre at s-e-a-p.de
Sun Dec 5 10:35:35 UTC 2021


On Saturday, 4 December 2021 at 15:31:02 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
>  I'm curious if a ported/rewrite of a Reed Solomon library 
> would be wanted/needed in the library? Doing a search i don't 
> see anything specific about adding it.
>
>  This might be more for networking, QRcodes, storage/backup 
> data or something where extra parity and error 
> detection/correction is needed.
>
>  The library I'm redoing in D is located here, thoughts?
>  http://rscode.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for doing this work. A side note, the library you 
translating from has the GPL license, therefore your D library 
needs to be GPL too, I assume.
Including GPL parts into Phobos is not possible as far as I know. 
Therefore a Dub package make sense.

Kind regards
Andre



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