[Zlib-devel] New gzio called gzlib

[Paul Marquess]

>From Mark Adler

> Faithful zlib testers,
> 
> I have written a ground-up replacement for gzio.c called gzlib.
> Eventually this will be split off of zlib, and so has its own version
> number.  It consists of several source files, including a gzlib.h that
> contains the user interface, much like zlib.h.  You can find the source
> files here:
> 
>      http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~madler/gzlib-1.0.0.1.tar.gz
> 
> The functions therein are temporarily named differently than in the
> current zlib, with inserted underscores, to allow side-by-side testing.
>   So gzFile becomes gz_file, gzread becomes gz_read, etc.  There is no
> makefile, so you're own your own compiling it, but of course you're all
> up to that.
> 
> So if you can, and especially if you normally make use of the gz*
> functions, please test the new gzlib and let me know how it goes.

Is it your intention to remove the existing gz* functions from zlib and put
them into gzlib?

Paul