On Sunday, 17 May 2015 at 17:32:10 UTC, Liam McSherry wrote:
On Sunday, 17 May 2015 at 17:02:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 5/17/15 9:32 AM, Liam McSherry wrote:
I'd like to know whether there would be demand for such a
package, and
what the community would want in terms of the API and
features. I
haven't yet written any code for the package as the API is
going to be
one of the most important parts, and I thought it would be
best to have
agreement on what is wanted before starting on it.
That'd be great. A few thoughts: (a) should use ranges through
and through; (b) might be interesting to allow libarchive
http://www.libarchive.org as engine. That's BSD licensed, but
we can interface with it. Or at least use it as reference for
low-level design. -- Andrei
Ranges definitely.
Rather than add libarchive as a dependency, it might be
something to port the libarchive code to D. That would require
licensing sections of std.archive under BSD rather than Boost,
though.
It doesn't looks like a good idea to me (to port to D but more
simply to use this lib), just look to this:
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue
over 100 open bug reports ! The maintainers of the D package
would have to follow this from near and it couldn't be well kept
in sync. with phobos.
