Re: Any Interest in a port of ZLib to C++?

From: Takatoshi Kondo (redboltz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-03-23 09:43:17

Hi Vinnie,

The library you propose is really nice to have !

I had tried to use zlib with boost asio stream.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44712852/how-to-decompress-the-data-in-boostasiostreambuf-using-boostiostreamsfilt

However, I gave up on it and then I used the raw zlib directly.
https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/blob/cpp_master/example/boost/asio_send_recv_zlib.cpp

If I would have modern, stream friendly, and header-only zlib library,
I would be very glad.

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Thanks
Takatoshi
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 2:16 PM Vinnie Falco via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Beast currently has its own port of ZLib to C++:
>
> <https://github.com/boostorg/beast/tree/develop/include/boost/beast/zlib>
>
> Is there any interest in having this proposed as its own separate
> Boost library (with a separate review, which has nothing to do with
> Beast)? The differences would be as follows:
>
> * Ported to use C++11 idioms
> * Same header-only / compiled source model as Boost.JSON
> * Better documentation and clear API
> * Improved tests
>
> Programs which use this C++ port of ZLib would get their zlib
> dependency from Boost instead of the official zlib distribution. And
> they can integrate it into their projects the same way that Boost
> libraries are integrated. Or they can include <boost/zlib/src.hpp> in
> any one translation unit (like JSON).
>
> The motivation for this is twofold:
>
> * Provide an easier way for users to access ZLib's functionality
> * To use this in some new libraries that I'm going to propose
>
> --
> Regards,
> Vinnie
>
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