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Stefan Bodewig commented on COMPRESS-263:
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Counting isn't used consistently in Compress, gzip counts the decompressed
bytes and only counts inside the input stream as well, so I won't bother you
with it here. All that's missing is the documentation, I'll look into it.
> Add DEFLATE support
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>
> Key: COMPRESS-263
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-263
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Compressors
> Reporter: Matthias Stevens
> Labels: features
> Fix For: 1.9
>
> Attachments: COMPRESS-263_DeflateSupport.patch,
> COMPRESS-263_DeflateSupport_v1.1.patch, bla.tar.deflate, bla.tar.deflatez
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> GZIP is not a compression algorithm "as such". The de facto (and currently
> the only supported) compression algorithm it uses is DEFLATE.
> GZIP adds a header of minimum 10 bytes and a footer of 8 bytes to a
> "deflated" data stream. Find out more here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip#File_format
> I have no problem with the current GZIP support, but it would be nice if
> CommonsCompress would also have compression and decompression support for
> "raw" DEFLATE streams and DEFLATE streams with the zlib header.
> Similarly to the GZIP support in CommonsCompress these functionality can be
> implemented very easily using the standard java.util.zip package, as done in
> the provided patch.
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