On 7 July 2015 at 12:33, ketmar via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:48:51 +0000, Rikki Cattermole wrote: > >> Please destroy! > > have no real opinion, but for me everything is looking good. i don't > really care about "ideal design", only about "usable design". and that > seems usable. > >> Some thoughts of mine: >> - std.zlib will need to support allocators > > std.zlib need to stop being crap. i.e. it should be thrown away and > completely rewritten. i did that several times, including pure D inflate > and compress/decompress that using byte streams. never used std.zlib as > is.
What's wrong with zlib? Surely it's possible to produce a d interface for zlib that's nice? Thing is, zlib is possibly the single most popular library in the world, and it gets way more testing, and improvements + security fixes from time to time. Why wouldn't you want to link to the real thing?
