[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.4 released!

[Török Edwin]

On 03/19/2010 01:02 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:
> On 3/17/2010 12:23 AM, Mark Adler wrote:
>> William,
>>
>> Thanks.  For DLL you built, is DLL_FAQ.txt in the distribution all still correct?  Can you write a README.txt file that says where the user should put the files once they get them in order to make use of them?  I would simply use your flat structure for the zip file, but add the two .txt files.  Thanks.
> 
> DLL_FAQ.txt looks just fine.  You are right, if you are confused by the .pdb's,
> for example, this package needs a readme :)  I also suggest including zlib.3.pdf
> and ChangeLog, if the text below is acceptable I'll re-zip and re-sign with these
> three additional files.
> 
> README-WIN32.txt [or any name other than README, in case they unpack zlib124.zip
> on top of this package] might look like the following, based on the critical
> portions of README, plus informative notes about this package.  I'm presenting
> as a psuedo-diff to README, please take careful note of the two '?' edits below,
> and offer any edits or comments.
> 
> 
>   ZLIB DATA COMPRESSION LIBRARY
> 
>   zlib 1.2.4 is a general purpose data compression library.  All the code is
>   thread safe.  The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs
>   (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files
>   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate format)
>   and rfc1952.txt (gzip format).
> 
> + All functions of the compression library are documented in the file zlib.h
> + (volunteer to write man pages welcome, contact zlib at gzip.org).  Two compiled
> + exampes are distributed in this package, example and minigzip.  The example_d

s/exampes/examples/

--Edwin