[Demexp-dev] Re: camlgz, camlrpc, cduce for Ocaml 3.09

2005-12-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:35:16PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> (Note: camlgz is not yet in the Debian distribution.)

I am curious, how does camlgz compare with camlzip ? 

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[Demexp-dev] Re: camlgz, camlrpc, cduce for Ocaml 3.09

2005-12-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:17:39AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > I am curious, how does camlgz compare with camlzip ? 
> 
> Eric Cooper said on July, 29th:
> 
> « I'd like to see this in Debian so I can use it in approx.  Right now I
> am forking gunzip/bunzip2 processes with Sys.command (and that's still
> faster than using Camlzip). »
> 
> On my side, I'm simply packaging it because the demexp project needs it.
> Maybe David Mentré (the demexp developer) will give his motivations
> behind the choice of camlgz instead of camlzip.

Mmm, so camlgz is an implementation of gz in caml, or is it a stub for libgz
or something similar ? 

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Re: [Demexp-dev] Re: camlgz, camlrpc, cduce for Ocaml 3.09

2005-12-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:41:47PM +0100, David MENTRE wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 2005/12/6, Thomas Petazzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Maybe David Mentré (the demexp developer) will give his motivations
> > behind the choice of camlgz instead of camlzip.
> 
> camlgz provides in-memory zipping and unzipping while camlzip only
> provides zipping and unzipping from files.

Ok, but is it a libgzip or whatever binding, or pure ocaml stuff ? I guess i
should look at the package and will have the answer instead of asking here :)

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