Request for Features/Ideas: A std.archive package

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On Sunday, 17 May 2015 at 17:32:10 UTC, Liam McSherry wrote:
> On Sunday, 17 May 2015 at 17:02:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Ranges definitely.
>
> Rather than add libarchive as a dependency, it might be 
> something to port the libarchive code to D. That would require 
> licensing sections of std.archive under BSD rather than Boost, 
> though.

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.