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

From: Nigel Stewart (nigels.com_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-05-02 02:20:35

>
> > For what it's worth, I overwhelmingly agree that Boost should have
> > compression as a first-class library.
>
> 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.

Our specific requirement is to statically link _our_ preferred version of
zlib built from _our_ pristine (and possibly patched) repo.  There is no
build reproducability via system packages that get patched over time,
or are pinned to a historical version for the purpose of system stability.

But, building and linking a boost-bundled zlib would be pretty close to
that, and pretty workable in terms of bringing our patches on top.

- Nigel