Re: GZip{In,Out}putStream in GIO?

[Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>]

> I could think of at least 5 types of compressions that would be useful
> to have without having to use a command-line tool to decompress:
> - gzip for anything and everything that can come from a web server (in
> my case, iTunes Music Store playlist parsing, or more widely, GOffice
> file formats)
> - zip for OpenOffice.org documents and Comic Books (evince)
> - 7zip/LZMA/Xz formats for Comic Books
> - Rar for the same as above

libgsf already handles zip, tar, and ole2 archives.  (And gzip/bzip2
compressed streams, but reimplementing those doee not sound like
much work.)

Morten