Re: [boost] C++ Deflate (zlib-like) library

Le vendredi 06 mars 2020 à 16:51 +0100, Dominique Devienne via Boost a écrit :

On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 12:50 PM Janson R. via Boost wrote:

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I have recently been working on a C++ compression library very similar to zlib after trying to implement some HTTP compression support over Boost.Beast and realizing after some discussion with sir Falco that while it would be a nice builtin feature for Beast, it would possibly be a better idea to have zlib-like compression be a separate library in order to be properly maintainable and likely more useful. Do you thing that this could be useful to have as its own entity in the Boost environment? Any kind of feedback on the idea and the library is warmly welcome.

(As someone who had to recently peek into the zlib C source code...)

Hi. I'd very much welcome a clean pure C++ implementation of basic deflate compression, because the C code I saw did not give me a warm and buzzy feeling, honestly.

+1. Same feeling here. A decent c++ api for dealing with zlib compression, and on top of that zip format would indeed be very useful. Current options sucks (about 15 years ago, i had to develop (closed) code to read and write some zip files. I ran into the same need a few months ago, just to see nothing has improved in this regard). Regards, Julien