[Ironruby-core] zlib implementation

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

Mike Moore wrote:
> On 9/13/07, *Eric Nicholson* <enicholson at gmail.com 
> <mailto:enicholson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Interesting YAML implementation discussion aside...
> 
>     What's the goal in implementing Zlib on IR?  The reason I ask is
>     that I'm wondering what level of compatibility we want with the
>     canonical implementation.  There are a lot of things in the Zlib
>     module/classes that are not readily available in
>     System.IO.Compresssion (Adler-32 hashes, selectable compression
>     levels, etc.).  Can we gloss over those and just implement a good
>     inflate/deflate capability?
> 
> 
> I might be okay with not having Zlib in IronRuby when IR is hosted 
> within Silverlight (partially because that framework is missing 
> System.IO.Compression).  But I'd expect IronRuby's Zlib to be 100% 
> compatible with MRI's ZLib when used on the desktop and server.  100% or 
> as close as we can get it.
> 
> Hey Charlie, what are you guys doing for Zlib in JRuby?

Our Zlib is implemented using Java's built-in support for zip 
compression. There's a bit of trickery to get it to behave properly, but 
it's been working now for 1.5 years without major issues.

And we have our own impls of Adler32 et al.

- Charlie