Re: [Chicken-users] some progress on zlib

[Peter Keller]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:04:12AM +0200, Felix wrote:
> Peter Keller wrote:
> > 
> > After figuring out I could pass a byte-vector into a foreign-lambda
> > declaration where something expects a void* that is treated as a char*,
> > my zlib FFI has come into reality.

[snip]

> Hey, that's nice. I did some minor Zlib stuff with
> Chicken, but having a port-like interface is even better.
> You should try out `make-input-port'/`make-output-port'
> (unit `extras', I think)

So, out of curiosity, why is it that I should do this? I don't understand
why ports are still really in use because they don't even provide the 
basic seeking/read-write semantics of C stdio.

> > I figure in a week or so(or in a single night, depending on time and
> > motivation), I'll have enough of the API to do very, very basic file i/o
> > where you can read or write compressed files. When I get to that point,
> > I'll package it up nice and release it since it can be useful right away
> > to someone.
> 
> Wonderful! How about a proper extensions (i.e. "egg") ?

Do you have a document explaining how to create these eggs? Maybe I'll convert
my gmp FFI to an egg as well.

-pete