Re: zlib autoconf question

[Paul Eggert]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> zlib is a pretty mature library.  Is gzip based on it these days, or
> does it use a separate implementation?

gzip's still separate, but we're considering changing it to use zlib,
as zlib seems to be more reliable than gzip's own implementation.

To answer Richard's question, yes, various groups look for bugs in
both zlib and gzip.