dsimcha Wrote: > * Compression/archiving. (Opening standard compressed/archived file > formats needs to just work. This includes at least zip, gzip, tar and > bzip2. Of course, zip already is available and gzip is supported by the > zlib module but with a crufty C API.
I did a patch a couple months ago to let you get gzip through the D wrapper too. Nothing fancy (about a ten line patch), but it works and got pulled in, so we have something for this. http://www.d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_zlib.html#HeaderFormat