[IronPython] Gzip module

[Michael Foord]

Sanghyeon Seo wrote:
> 2006/9/23, Sylvain Hellegouarch <sh at defuze.org>:
>   
>> Just gave a stab to a gzip module yesterday evening and I thought it
>> might be handy for others.
>>
>> http://www.defuze.org/oss/ipextra/gzip.txt
>>     
>
> Nice work!
>
>   
>> It uses the SharZipLib package for .NET. It is bundled by default with
>> Mono but I don't know for MS.NET.
>>     
>
> For MS.NET, you can download #ziplib here:
> http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/Default.aspx
>
>   
This is cool - and the license is good to. Previously I just saw GPL on 
this module and dismissed it.

Hmmm... it would seem like commercial or GPL are the only two license 
choices for projects that use this module though. (I usually prefer BSD.)

>> I assume implementing other modules such as bzip2, zlib ad tarfile would
>> not be much harder.
>>     
>
> tarfile module is in pure Python and it should work okay on IronPython 
Great - when you have a fixed version, can you make it available please ?

Michael Foord
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml


> --
> except for the bug I will report right now. :-) After working around that, it
> does work. I tested it.
>
>   



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