Re: [Chicken-users] 2.2 on windows gunzip and tar

[felix winkelmann]

On 11/8/05, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:

> Ideally Chicken would have its own
> reliable tar and gz reader libraries and not be dependent on external tools.
>

Yes, that would be quite nice. A tar reader shouldn't be too hard, and
a colleague of mine has written a gzip-compatible compression/decompression
library (zlib just sucks too much). Perhaps I can convince him to give it
a shapelift and add it to chicken...


cheers,
felix