@Josh: I think you didn't read my entire mail. :) @Gordon: Thanks for the additional input.
Nevertheless, I'd love to see some official resource that clarifies if bzip2 support is still required for querying Source servers. 2013/7/9 Gordon Reynolds <[email protected]> > Is bzip2 still used to compress server responses to queries? > > I do not believe so, I use SourceLib in python to do some simple querying, > and in the source for that there is a note/comment about how there is > support for bzip2 compressed packets - but the author (at the time of > writing) has never found anyone using this, and so has just left it out. > > bzip2 is still used to compress maps and other resources, but as far as I > have seen, I can't say I've heard of anyone compressing the actual packets > - as is documented possible. > > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Josh Stratton <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > - Gordon Reynolds > _______________________________________________ > 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
