Re: [PATCH] add pkzip support for gzio

[Bean]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Colin D Bennett <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:45:50 +0800
> Bean <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Also, it's better not to call gzio. I'm thinking about seperating the
>> deflate decompression routine and create a zlib like library, so that
>> the decoder can be used in both gzio, png and zipfs.
>
> Also, pure DEFLATE compression can be used to compress font data in the
> new font file format.  I postponed implementing font compression to
> wait for DEFLATE support.

Hi Colin,

Actually, I think you can use lzma. The encoder and decoder are both
inside /lib now, there is no need to use external library. Besides,
LZMA is much better than DEFLATE in compression ratio.

-- 
Bean