On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:29:56 +0100 (BST), Jonathan E. Paton wrote:
>> Heh? What about Compress::Zlib, which is based on the zlib library, and
>> is used both by Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip?
>>
>> It doesn't seem to be encumbered with the GNU license, either.
>>
>> <http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/>
>
>Described on CPAN as an interface, we need a pure Perl solution, remember? If it's
>an interface,
>it needs the compiled library as well - which is a little prohibitive.
There are two solutions that I can see...
1) Make the compiled library a more intimate part of the Perl
distribution (perhaps even part of the perl executable...)
2) Rewrite the decompressor in pure Perl.
--
Bart.
