[fpc-pascal] [RFC] Modification to packages/paszlib/src/zipper.pp

[Burkhard Carstens]

Am Dienstag, 30. September 2008 10:05 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > > Implemented as proposed (rev. 11833).
> > > I updated TUnZipper so it works with TZipFileEntry as well.
> > >
> > > It is now also possible to provide the input through streams.
> > > (size is needed, so
> > > not every stream can be used).
> >
> > Absolutely fantastic. The stream option also saves me writing out a
> > temporary file to disk to include it in the zip file. Thanks very
> > much Michael!
> >
> > I don't suppose this is likely to make it into the FIXES branch by
> > any chance? (Not that it's a problem, I'll just leave zipper.pp in
> > my local source tree)
>
> It's currently not quite clear if the fixes branch is going to be
> used for the next release. In case it will be used for the next
> release, I'll make sure it ends up there.

I think many people use the fixes_2_2 branch because trunk is "too hot" 
but they need some of the 2.2.2 bugs fixed. So IMO it's good to merge 
non intrusive enhancements like this, regardless if the next release 
will be 2.2.4 or 2.4.0.

regards
 Burkhard