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On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:29:56 +0100 (BST), Jonathan E. Paton wrote: >> Heh? What about Compress::Zlib, which is based on the zlib library, and >> is used both by Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip? >> >> It doesn't seem to be encumbered with the GNU license, either. >> >> <http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/> > >Described on CPAN as an interface, we need a pure Perl solution, remember? If it's an interface, >it needs the compiled library as well - which is a little prohibitive. There are two solutions that I can see... 1) Make the compiled library a more intimate part of the Perl distribution (perhaps even part of the perl executable...) 2) Rewrite the decompressor in pure Perl. -- Bart.Thread Previous