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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#31065: Version 2?? |
Date: | Thu, 5 Apr 2018 14:19:41 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 |
On 04/05/2018 10:20 AM, Mark Adler wrote:
As a consequence, there would need to be a fair bit of testing to make sure it works across a wide variety of systems. The current gzip has the advantage of having been deployed over a very wide range of systems over a long time, so a lot of portability issues have been worked out.
Absolutely. I expect that most of the work will be testing and portability-enhancement. For example, we could use the Gnulib pthreads module to insulate the gzip code proper from the vagaries of threads on non-POSIX platforms (this won't work as well as native threads, but that's OK, gzip will still run).
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