bzip2 is still being used. 7zip doesn't have great comparability with Ruby to my knowledge but I've been using it for years for compressing. Open source and it works better than the previous programs I've used.
On Monday, July 8, 2013, Sebastian Staudt wrote: > Hi. > > Some of you might know that I'm the author of the Steam Condenser library ( > http://koraktor.de/steam-condenser) which is available for Ruby, Java and > PHP. > > Currently I'm in need to find a new bzip2 compression library for Ruby, > because the current one (bzip2-ruby) is not compatible with Ruby 2.0 yet. > Although I started working on an alternative implementation (rbzip2) > myself, I have one simple question at the moment: > > Is bzip2 still used to compress server responses to queries? > > I recently tried to query random Source servers from the master server, but > not a single one replied with compressed data. > > So before I put more effort into this, I'd like to now if this is still > needed or if this feature can be deprecated safely. > > Best regards, > > Sebastian > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
