Compressed file for Windows port

Andreas Köhler andi5.py at gmx.net
Fri Mar 16 13:00:41 EDT 2007


Hi,

Am Freitag, den 16.03.2007, 09:15 -0700 schrieb David Brown:
> Davide Imbeni wrote:
> > >From http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows :
> >
> > Reading/writing compressed files
> >
> > The current win32 SVN code doesn't read or write compressed (gzip'd)
> files.
> > On Linux, gnucash forks gzip as a child process and pipes the file through
> > it. On windows, there isn't an easy replacement for fork() and pipe(). See
> > src/backend/file/io-gncxml-v2.c:1246 ff.
> 
> Wouldn't calling 'zlib' be easier, and then more likely to work on
> Windows?

What does "calling zlib" mean?  Anyway, see
http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2007-February/019876.html.
I guess implementation issues belong to gnucash-devel, so let us take it
there if there is something new to discuss.

> Dave

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