Hello Duncan, Thursday, September 21, 2006, 12:11:28 PM, you wrote:
I'm pleased to announce two new packages: zlib and bzlib which provide functions for compression and decompression in the gzip and bzip2 formats:
that's great! i even think that these libraries should go into ghc's extra-libs package
Both provide pure functions on streams of data represented by lazy ByteStrings:
compress, decompress :: ByteString -> ByteString
i'd plans to add compression support to my Streams library and your work will definitely make simpler my own about API - while it's great for simple usage, it's not enough universal. i think that the most universal one is using callbacks to read and write memory buffers, as implemented in my own compression library: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library/Compression -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com