Re: java.util.zip

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Nov 16, John Leuner wrote:
> 
> I should have made it more clear that this is a port to pure java code. My
> hidden agenda here is to use the code in a future java OS (see
> http://jos.org), which is why I didn't want to use zlib.

IIRC, everything except Deflater and Inflater are already pure java in
libgcj.  Deflater and Inflater are just interfaces to zlib, so it
makes sense for you to rewrite them from scratch.  You should borrow
some code from zlib, of course.  And make sure you have RFC 1950-1952
handy.

> I will have a look at the libgcj code and Jochen's code, to see what I can
> borrow / contribute in terms of code and javadoc.

You can probably take all other classes in java.zip from libgcj
without changes.  Regarding javadoc I think there is very little in
libgcj.

  Jochen