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From: Stephen Sangwine <sjs@essex.ac.uk>
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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 17:48:51 +0000
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Subject: Re: ZLib in Ada ?
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I started to write one in 2003, but the task is big, and interpreting
the Zlib compression/decompression standard (actually an RFC) is not easy.
It looks like 2007 was the last year I did anything on it, and I don't
even have a working deflator (decompression code).

Zlib_Ada came along, and that seemed good enough. Any new implementation
in Ada is going to need a lot of testing before it gets as reliable as
Zlib itself.

If anyone's interested in working on it, I could start a Sourceforge
project and make the code available, or others could join the project
and work on it.

Steve Sangwine


On 2011-03-04 07:37:45 +0000, Gautier write-only 
<gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com> said:

> Out of curiosity: does something like that exist ?
> Cheers
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