Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Re: Unzip module

[Jesse G. <je...@wi...>]

Nicolas Cannasse wrote:

>>>>Hi list,
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>>>>This weekend I played a little with inflate algorithm, the
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>decompression
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>>>>algorithm described in RFC 1951 and which is used by most file formats
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>>>(zip,
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>>>>gz, jar, png, swf....). I rewrote it entirely from the RFC in pure
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>OCaml,
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>>>>and I think it could be nice to add it to ExtLib.
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>>>>The current implementation uses IO module and wrap an input :
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>>>>module Unzip
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>>>The Unzip module is now part of ExtLib !
>>>You can deflate your TGZ and ZIP with pure OCaml code only !
>>>Enjoy,
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>>>Nicolas Cannasse
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>>Wow, that's cool.
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>>That reminds me: Is there any chance you might be interested in Dustin
>>Sallings' pure OCaml CDB module?
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>>You can view the docs here:
>>   http://bleu.west.spy.net/~dustin/projects/ocaml/doc/Cdb.html
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>>And download it (along with some of Dustin's other modules) here:
>>   http://bleu.west.spy.net/~dustin/projects/ocaml/index.xtp
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>>The patch-71 release doesn't build on 3.08 due to the new Int
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>restrictions,
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>>but if you click "Changes" and download and apply patch-72 it will build
>>fine.
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>>I use this code in a program I'm writing here at work. It's licensed
>>under a BSD style license, but Dustin might be willing to release
>>it under the LGPL. He's been very flexible with licensing in the past,
>>but you'd have to ask.
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>>I've been extremely impressed with this module so far. We had some divide
>>by zero problems which manifested under Linux and FreeBSD ( but not
>>Dustin's primary development platform: OSX ) originally, but Dustin was
>>quick to fix them, and it's really quite fast.
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>Well, we've been talking before about adding a module in order to save
>config or data informations in a persistent storage (such as a file) but we
>couldn't agree on which was best. IMHO we need a hierarchical format with
>some structural semantics and a minimum of typing , all of that storable in
>an text only user editable format. XML would be enough even if not best
>before it's widely use and easy to interface with other programming language
>for data exchanges. I think CDB is not enough powerful - although
>convenient - so that we reach an agreement on it.
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>Regards,
>Nicolas Cannasse
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:) Well, I didn't suggest it because I think it's the end-all to data 
storage. I suggested it because it's
useful. Python has a CDB module. OCaml normally ships with a DBM module, 
AFAIK. What's wrong
with a little variety?

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