Re: An: ZLib-Ada

[Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>]

On 2003-12-04, Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> wrote:
> Dmitriy Anisimkov writes:
>
>> Preben Randhol wrote:
>> > On 2003-12-02, Dmitriy Anisimkov wrote:
>> > > Latest version of the popular compression/decompression library
>> > > ZLib v 1.2.1 contains thick Ada binding in the contrib/ada folder.
>> > 
>> > Where?
>> 
>> Go to the www.zlib.org,
>> 
>> there is a link to download
>> 
>> http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz
>> 
>> uncompress it and see to the contrib/ada folder.

Ah I see. I was looking at the contrib link on this web pages.

> Hey Preben, would you care packaging it for Debian?  I see zlib1g-dev
> doesn't contain the Ada files.  I envision a static *.a library,
> *.ali, and *.ad[bs] files in their proper places on my system the next
> time I upgrade zlib1g-dev :)

Yes, but unfortunately I don't have time this year. My PhD defence is in
2 weeks.

> (I already have 11 source packages on my plate, all Ada-related,
> otherwise I'd do it myself).

Yes and you are doing a great job!

> PS. Kudos to Dmitriy for making this binding part of the official
> zlib!

Yes, this was what surprised me. I thought I had to look for a seperate
file to get the ada version. :-)

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