On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Joe Mistachkin <sql...@mistachkin.com>
> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > * miniz-1.16br1
>> >
>> > IMHO, if any library we fold in to our source tree has updates, we
>> > should evaluate them. Miniz certainly fits that description, the
>> > question may be where the official upstream source is located post
>> > google-code's closure.
>> >
>>
>> Yes, if we are going to retain support for it, it needs to be up-to-date
>> (especially it appears to have some issues that zlib does not have).
>>
>> However, before updating it, we really need to find its official source.
>>
>> If it's no longer actively maintained, we should probably just remove it
>> from the tree.
>>
>
> Someone (Baruch?) posted a link to the now-official github site, but
> AFAICS it's not actively maintained. i mailed the guy a couple of times
> with C89 portability patches and got no response, but IIRC Baruch reported
> getting a response from him.
>
> In any case, i tend to agree - if it's not maintained, we should drop it
> because it's not a piece "just anyone" can get their fingers in and tweak
>

I forwarded my conversation with him to this list. If anyone wants to take
it up from there...


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