[delphizip] Re: Co-operation between NanoZIP and DelphiZIP
- From: Gerard <gslurink@xxxxxx>
- To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 00:25:46 +0200
Agreed.
Meanwhile I will await comment of the others.
Gerard.
At 10:11 11.11.2002 +1300, you wrote:
>Hello Gerard,
>I hope that if the others here want to move with it they do so as
>I agree with you that Adem has a certain degree of urgency on this rather big
>change he has recently made which is undergoing and needs valuable input to
>complete its direction in a timely manner.
>Your comments below (and Nanogroup mails I read) show the urgency of this:
>G> I acted so quickly because Adem is working hard on his Nanozip and had
>just
>G> done a major restructuring. It wanted to start the discussion with him on
>G> modularity as soon as possible, so that Adem could direct his work
>G> immediately in this direction if he was to agree. It would be a pity to
>
>Re your comment below:
>G> I don't agree with the proposal of making Nanozip the compression engine
>G> and Delphizip the VCL archive manipulation component. I like very much
>G> Adem's container/content abstraction and his use of streams and I would
>not
>G> like to loose that. I think the Nanozip component and Delphizip can very
>G> well coexist, and even other similar components could be developped, which
>G> all could potentially choose from the same set of compression engines.
>
>I would humbly suggest that if the Nano/DZip group transpires (hopefully) that
>we (Gerard, Eric, James, Roger, Adem, [I am happy to help]) suggest the
>various
>methodologies we could adopt to complete the common goal and have an general
>questionaire to put to the groups as a whole.
>That way everybody can express their point of view and providing the group is
>cohesive enough, the final goal will be reached with a co-ordinated,
>professional result rather than with disjointed, semi-cooperation.
>
>
>G> If there is any hope on a common effort, please let's try to look in the
>G> direction of the goal we want to achieve. I am very sorry if I hurt
>anyone,
>
>Agreed. Now I have got to do some work ;-) I remain available to help in
>any way
>should I be needed. Programatically I am just returning to Delphi so would be
>better serving helping you Eric or whatever.
>Alistair+
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