Re: Compression libraries such as zlib and zstd ought to be first class boost libraries

From: René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-05-01 18:30:09

On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 1:16 PM Vinnie Falco via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 9:06 AM Christian Mazakas via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > For what it's worth, I overwhelmingly agree that Boost should have
> > compression as a first-class library.
> >
> > We've lost our way, we keep amalgamating Asio-wrapping libraries but we
> > don't provide the bread-and-butter functionality that developers actually
> > need on a day-to-day basis.
> >
>
> zlib comes preinstalled on most Linux distros. If anything, zlib is more
> popular than the Boost library collection in terms of the number of
> installs. So I'm not sure what you're going on about. The "bread-and-butter
> functionality that developers actually need on a day-to-day basis" is
> already abundantly available.
>
> What is gained by incurring the permanent, per-Boost-release costs that
> comes with introducing the hypothetical Boost.ZLib which cannot be
> currently obtained simply by saying (for example) "vcpkg install zlib" ?

I think Christian meant adding a compression abstraction library above
zlib, bz2, zip, etc?

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