On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:21:39PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > > > > So this is the second report on corrupted compressed .lyx files within > > a week. Maybe it's time to revert the boost zipping stuff. > > I have to say that, if this is indeed boost::iostreams' fault, I would > be really disappointed at the quality of boost libraries.
boost has no uniform quality. Some stuff is really good (regexpi, shared_ptr), some less so (filesystem, and now apparently zipping) and some is useless at best. > I think we can disable compression at 1.5.1, but allow reading of > compressed files for backward compatibility. Anyway, this feature can > be replaced by the embedding feature that may be introduced in 1.6.0. > I believe zlib is much more robust than boost::iostreams. In the meantime I came to believe so as well. So why did we rip off zlib initially? Andre'
