[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: Codec.Compression.GZip & .BZip

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Duncan,

Thursday, September 21, 2006, 12:11:28 PM, you wrote:

> I'm pleased to announce two new packages: zlib and bzlib which provide
> functions for compression and decompression in the gzip and bzip2
> formats:

that's great! i even think that these libraries should go into ghc's
extra-libs package

> Both provide pure functions on streams of data represented by lazy
> ByteStrings:

> compress, decompress :: ByteString -> ByteString

i'd plans to add compression support to my Streams library and your
work will definitely make simpler my own

about API - while it's great for simple usage, it's not enough
universal. i think that the most universal one is using callbacks to
read and write memory buffers, as implemented in my own compression
library: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library/Compression


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Best regards,
 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com