From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: zlib autoconf question Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:17:07 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <520934B3.7050207@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20995.38193.299757.55244@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20999.62420.118305.428747@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <83a9knr5px.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376335064 20106 80.91.229.3 (12 Aug 2013 19:17:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, eliz@gnu.org, Richard Stallman , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 12 21:17:45 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V8xce-0003NA-Id for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:17:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37458 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8xcd-0004uQ-PZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:17:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60256) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8xcS-0004tG-S5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:17:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8xcL-0000BJ-Hb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:17:32 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:49130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V8xcD-000087-FZ; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3FC7A60001; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:17:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8Lb5qt0ZlyLS; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-108-49-126.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.108.49.126]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5349639E8008; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:17:15 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130803 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162638 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > zlib is a pretty mature library. Is gzip based on it these days, or > does it use a separate implementation? gzip's still separate, but we're considering changing it to use zlib, as zlib seems to be more reliable than gzip's own implementation. To answer Richard's question, yes, various groups look for bugs in both zlib and gzip.