> SharpZipLib looks to be more actively maintained and with clearer and
> more
> permissive licensing. It's a dependency of most of my project anyway so I
> would not mind it.

Kind of. On the other hand when it's done, like *done*, there's not much
to change.

> An alternative to an external dependency is an intree copy with
> unnecesary
> bits(eg. bzip2,tar) removed.

Depends on the license. But that's option as well. Only problem is
maintaining it up to date...

> Out of curiosity why is DeflateStream/GZipStream not enough?

Deflate is raw data compression. Zlib that core guys used, needs some
zlib headers etc. Same as gzip, that has different headers etc. 

-- 
Mgr. Jiří Činčura
Independent IT Specialist

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