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From: Gautier write-only <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ZLib in Ada ?
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On Mar 6, 6:48=A0pm, 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