From: Gautier write-only <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: ZLib in Ada ?
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 12:39:17 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2011-03-06T12:39:17-08:00 [thread overview]
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On Mar 6, 6:48 pm, Stephen Sangwine <s...@essex.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.
Seems a good idea!
I might join and contribute the Ada compression / decompression part,
which is already available:
- complete inflate (decompression) code, in Zip-Ada since 1999 and in
the Generic Image Decoder since 2010
- deflate code (compression) with one approach currently, in Zip-Ada
since a few days
We need to find a good name. Zada ?... (hmmm perhaps not a good
one...)
Cheers
Gautier
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-04 7:37 ZLib in Ada ? Gautier write-only
2011-03-05 8:35 ` Stephen Leake
2011-03-06 15:16 ` Gautier write-only
2011-03-06 15:24 ` Phil Thornley
2011-03-06 15:31 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-06 15:47 ` Gautier write-only
2011-03-09 6:31 ` Stephen Leake
2011-03-06 17:48 ` Stephen Sangwine
2011-03-06 20:39 ` Gautier write-only [this message]
2011-03-27 23:46 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-06 23:35 ` Gene
2011-03-07 22:00 ` Stephen Sangwine
2011-03-07 23:10 ` Gautier write-only
2011-03-08 2:52 ` Gene
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