On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, DrDiettrich wrote:
> Hi there, > > I'm new to this list and want to introduce myself and my intended > contributions to FreePascal. > > My name is Dr. Hans-Peter Diettrich, and I live in Flensburg (Germany). > For brevity I use to sign my messages as DoDi. My main interests are > decompilers and (tools for) porting code. Usually I work with Delphi, > but this behaviour may change ;-) > > Recently I came across some interesting library modules of FPC, that I > want to use in my own projects. Some of these modules deserve updates, > in general and for use with Delphi, and I want to contribute my > according work to the FPC community. > > Currently I'm implementing an RPM clone for Windows, which in detail > should support source rpm's, better than the original RPM. Hereby I have > to deal with compressed files in various formats (gzip, bzip2), and > archive files (cpio, tar...). I've already update or implemented some > of these modules, now I want to define a common interface and API for > compressed and archive streams, based on TStreams. The zstream unit is > dedicated to a single compressor, but it has an handy name. How should I > name a more general unit, would "zstreams" be acceptable? > > My idea of a general (de-)compression interface is as follows: > Your idea is already implemented in Abbrevia from TurboPower. Abbrevia is open source, and is maintained on SourceForge. Free Pascal has a copy of it that compiles in CVS, check out contrib/abbrevia Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
