[fpc-devel] patch minigzip

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Thu, 7 Sep 2006, schreef Darius Blaszijk:

> > > Just looked at the site of Nomssi, and it appears that the paszlib
> > > version
> > > he's shipping is also FPC compatible. I could have a look to use that
> > > zutil.pas unless someone tells me not to ;)
> > > Who did import this lib initially to fpc? It seems that there are
> > > some
> > > differences between the two versions, just wondering why.
> > 
> > a) We did need it for the FCL.
> > b) It is unmaintained, so the only way to do maintenance is to import it
> > so we can do the necessary maintenance.
> > 
> > I did a cleanup of the code some time ago to switch from C to Pascal types
> > and kick the zutil unit.
> > 
> > Daniël
> 
> Apart from the memory functions, there were also some "new" types declared
> like pzByteArray. How should I handle that one? Is there an alternative
> available?

Sure, Pbyte.

> Or could we perhaps just import back zutil.pas but without the
> memory functions?

No, there is no reason why you want to use types like Pulong etc. in 
Pascal. Use of standard types that every Pascal programmer understands, 
like Pcardinal, makes the code much more readable.

Daniël