On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 9:06 AM Christian Mazakas via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
For what it's worth, I overwhelmingly agree that Boost should have compression as a first-class library.
We've lost our way, we keep amalgamating Asio-wrapping libraries but we don't provide the bread-and-butter functionality that developers actually need on a day-to-day basis.
zlib comes preinstalled on most Linux distros. If anything, zlib is more popular than the Boost library collection in terms of the number of installs. So I'm not sure what you're going on about. The "bread-and-butter functionality that developers actually need on a day-to-day basis" is already abundantly available. What is gained by incurring the permanent, per-Boost-release costs that comes with introducing the hypothetical Boost.ZLib which cannot be currently obtained simply by saying (for example) "vcpkg install zlib" ? Thanks