GNU bug report logs - #33070
Underlying Gzip library

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: Charlie Sale <softwaresale01 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:34:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 33070 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Mark Adler <madler <at> alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: 33070 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, softwaresale01 <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#33070: Underlying Gzip library
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:51:21 +0300

tags 33070 + notabug
close 33070
thanks

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:59 AM Mark Adler <madler <at> alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> The library you speak of was created about 23 years ago. It’s called “zlib”. That TODO file looks like it hasn’t changed much in the last quarter century.
>
> As for gzip making use of that library, that has not yet occurred. And probably doesn’t need to. There does exist another implementation of gzip called “pigz” which in fact uses zlib for compression and decompression. (It also offers parallel compression.)

Thanks for replying, Mark.
On that basis, I'll close this auto-created "issue", but that needn't
stop any conversation.
Feel free to reply on this thread.
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