Re: GZip{In,Out}putStream in GIO?

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:48:47PM +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been eye balling the GIO docs for a while without finding
> in-/output for gzip compression... So if I missed it stop me now :-)
> 
> From the looks of it, it should be straight forward to write
> GZip{In,Out}putStream classes based on zlib[1]. If I write these
> classes would a zlib dep. be OK for GIO? It is pretty ubiquitous as
> far as I can tell (and it is already a depency of Gtk+)... And I am
> not really all that keen on writing my own gzip/DEFLATE implementation
> (to say the least).
> 
> Another thing is the naming. Since this is not about supporting the
> Zip archive format (but that would be nice too) the name GZip*Stream
> might be bad. On the other hand i abhor the ALLCAPS GZIPInputStream
> used in fx. Java. What about GGZip*Stream - eeek!?
> 

libgsf has all these, along with a gio wrapper.