Subject: Re: bug#31065: Version 2??

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 14:19:41 -0700

On 04/05/2018 10:20 AM, Mark Adler wrote:
> As a consequence, there would need to be a fair bit of testing to make sure it works across a wide variety of systems. The current gzip has the advantage of having been deployed over a very wide range of systems over a long time, so a lot of portability issues have been worked out.

Absolutely. I expect that most of the work will be testing and 
portability-enhancement. For example, we could use the Gnulib pthreads 
module to insulate the gzip code proper from the vagaries of threads on 
non-POSIX platforms (this won't work as well as native threads, but 
that's OK, gzip will still run).