Re: Publishing with Lzip

2019-03-13 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
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Re: Publishing with Lzip

2019-03-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: >> I’d also recommend to re-read the API doc in the headers or whatever. >> IME these APIs are very tricky to use and one has to pay attention to >> every small detail. > > I read the manual too many times. The headers are not documented. The > examples > don't

Re: Publishing with Lzip

2019-03-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> I can give it a spin. Thanks! > It’d be great to gain some confidence about these things. :-) I haven’t > looked at the patch yet, but if you haven’t done it yet, I’d suggest > having tests like the one in tests/zlib.scm (compress and decompress a > bytevector of a random size with random

Re: Publishing with Lzip

2019-03-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > I've just sent a patch of a first draft for the Lzip bindings: > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34807 > > Switching from Gzip (Zlib) to Lzip would save up to some 50% disk usage > for substitutes which would greatly benefit the servers