Why Multiple Compression Protocols?

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deadguy
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Why Multiple Compression Protocols?

Post by deadguy » 2003-05-25 20:29

I was just questioning why the choice was made to have two different compression protocols used in DC++'s extensions? First, you have the BZList functionality, which uses libbzip2 (1.0.2). Second, there's the GetZBlock functionality, which uses ZLib (1.1.4).

Compression is of course a wonderful thing, but I don't see the need for multiple varieties in one program. Could someone please enlighten me?


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Gumboot
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Post by Gumboot » 2003-05-26 08:37

See this thread: Upcoming: ZLib block compression.
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deadguy
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Post by deadguy » 2003-05-26 14:12

Thanks!
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