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

From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-03-23 10:48:54

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 05:14, Vinnie Falco via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> 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:

While there's no harm in this, is zlib still really relevant in 2021?
bz2, lzma, lz4, zstd are all superior.