Packaging Gzstream?

[roucaries bastien]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Mathieu Malaterre
<mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am interested in a set of programs, the ‘BEDtools’, whose source includes a
>> convenience copy of the gzstream library.
>>
>> http://bedtools.googlecode.com
>> http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/compgeom/gzstream/
>>
>> A quick apt-file search indicates that at least two other packages (CCed) may
>> be using the gzstream library, k3d and freecad. So it seems that it would
>> make sense to package the gzstream library separately.
>>
>> But I notice that this library has not been updated since 2003, and obviously,
>> if only two programs in Debian are using it, there may be a more suitable
>> alternative, that would be worth suggesting to the authors of BEDtools.
>>
>> Does anybody has a good recommendation to replace gzstream by something more
>> “mainstream” without too much work? If not, are there volunteers to co-maintain
>> gzstream in Debian (it looks simple, but since I am not a C programmer, I am
>> not comfortable with library packaging).
>
> GDCM is using zipstream.
>
> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/stl/zipstream.aspx
>
> I do not remember why I gave up on gzstream (license issue ?). I
> cannot volunteer -at the moment-, but I can help with C programming
> issues.

boostiostream is better and does not need to to call zflush

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/libs/iostreams/doc/classes/gzip.html

> HTH
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