[delphizip] Re: NanoZip, the DLLs, etc.
- From: Alistair George <bigal@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: James Turner <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:48:19 +1300
Hello James,
What I would be concerned about the below is that running with your opinion we
would be saying to Nanozip author - we like your i/o routines but the rest we
are
not interested in. This is the delicate art of negotiation so we would need to
be careful how we approach this aspect.
JT> So far as NanoZip is concerned, I have yet to form an opinion on its overall
JT> design, but if the author is agreeable, it could serve as the source for
JT> implementing a pure compression/decompression engine. A zip wrapper for such
JT> an engine would be very useful but the advantage of structuring things this
JT> way is that if someone wants to implement a new archive format (e.g. Z++)
JT> they should be able to do so without any great difficulty. Also, if someone
JT> needs to work with, say, memory streams they could ignore the zip wrapper
And the below...
JT> and work purely with the compression/decompression engine. Surely, if major
JT> changes/new code is under discussion, this should be the direction we move
JT> in - ie create flexible and modular code.
If it were possible to satisfy everyone then Nanozip may very well want to move
in that direction as well in any case?
JT> Well, that's my opinion - I'm sure that plenty will disagree.
Maybe not ;-)
JT> -- James Turner
Lets just wait and see what Russell and Roger come back with before we expand on
this topic further.
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Regards,
Alistair+
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