RE: Zip code

[Thomas Tempelmann <listuser at tempel dot org>]

Thomas Tempelmann:

>> Or you could use my Zip classes and make them work with a 
>> free zlib plugin.

DavidM at ceilearning dot com:

>What would that take and why didn't you do that when you wrote the library?

I didn't write it because I had already the Eingugur plugin and so I 
saved myself time. It should not take more than a few days to get a new 
plugin working. Two "problems": 1. you need to figure out what parts of 
the data need to be used (Monkeybread also has a zlib plugin, but it has 
a somewhat different inclusion or exclusion of zlib meta data which made 
it impossible for me to work with it in my Zip classes). 2. You need to 
turn it into a plugin that can work with small parts of a zlib stream (or 
route the input/output thru a Event mechanism) so that you can work with 
any size of data without having to buffer the entire chunk in memory 
first. Einhugur solved this nicely with its Streaming interface.

>(ie. What limitations does the zlib implimentation have that Einhuger got
>around?)

Einhugur's only limitation is that it is not free. Otherwise, it works 
perfectly and _fast_.

Thomas
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