I've got the rubyforge project up for the pure ruby zlib
implementation, SVN has what I got so far, which is basically just
Zlib::Inflate, http://rubyforge.org/projects/zliby/  it's rough, but
I'm adding to it.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Michael Letterle
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to implement zlib in pure ruby, but in the mean time, I think
>  this should be good enough. Time will tell.  Once we get a good
>  collection of these libraries together we'll be able to see what's
>  really needed ;)
>
>  Anyway, updated zlib.rb attached, it performs the Gzip and Zlib
>  decompression... I'm not sure exactly what finish is suppose to do,
>  the docs are unclear.  I suspect it may not be applicable to the way
>  I'm returning the decompressed output...
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:43 AM, John Messerly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > Michael Letterle:
>  >
>  >
>  >  > Alright, I started doing this tonight (finally)  GZip was pretty
>  >  > straight forward, but Inflate may be a problem,  The
>  >  > System::IO::Compression.DeflateStream is RFC 1951 compliant /not/
>  >  > 1950.. Meaning it only covers Deflate, not ZLib in general. See here:
>  >  > https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?
>  >  > F
>  >  > eedbackID=97064&wa=wsignin1.0
>  >  >
>  >  > I'll research this more tomorrow, I'd hate to have to have an external
>  >  > dependency like Zlib.NET
>  >
>  >  Yeah, DeflateStream only implements the basic deflate algorithm, with no 
> configuration options. Worse, it doesn't have particularly good compression 
> ratio. Definitely worth investigating a port of a more fully featured 
> library...
>  >
>  >  - John
>  >
>  >
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