Re: C++ Deflate (zlib-like) library

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-03-09 13:26:07

The "Shitty API" is not having constructors and destructors, and
relying on the user to call a function to "free" some resources
instead of having their lifetime managed automatically via RAII.
Anyway... this has veered off-topic.

You came close to discussing the topic when you linked this library wrapper:

<https://github.com/do-m-en/libarchive_cpp_wrapper>

But you didn't actually discuss its API and the suitability to zlib.
Looking over this library I see:

    template<ns_writer::format FORMAT, ns_writer::filter FILTER>
    static writer make_writer(std::ostream& stream, size_t block_size);

Are you suggesting that ZLib should use ostream and istream as the
interface for writing and reading data?

Thanks