[IronPython] Zlib

[Dino Viehland]

I've opened bug #2590 (http://www.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython&WorkItemId=2590) to track this.  We have another compression request bug already (PEP 273 zip archive module support) and these two would go hand-in-hand.  No ETA on when we'd get to this though, but most likely sooner than supporting pyd's :).

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From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of J. Merrill
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:49 AM
To: Discussion of IronPython
Subject: Re: [IronPython] Zlib

Supporting any/all CPython plug-ins unchanged is clearly a big task -- but implementing zlib support shouldn't be very difficult.  That's what Mat was asking for...

At 11:12 AM 8/23/2006, Dino Viehland wrote
>Yep, we have an active bug on CodePlex but at this time we don't know when we'll get to it.  It's a rather large and daunting task (for example, how do we deal with the ref counting part of the API which involves direct access to memory?).
>
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>[mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of JoeSox
>Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:18 AM
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>Subject: Re: [IronPython] Zlib
>
>On 8/23/06, Mat Steeples <mat at matssoftware.co.uk> wrote:
>> d'oh, hadn't thought of googling for that! I gave up when just
>> googling for zlib brought back very few results.
>>
>> Are there any plans to build this in to IP? As it's something that's
>> built in to CPython?
>
>I believe I remember Dino mentioning that they don't support CPython's plugin model.
>--
>Later, JoeSox
>"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."
>-Mark Twain


J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp


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