Re: [xml] gzdirect() doesn't work in zlib 1.3.5.5 (at least) (was Re: libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes)

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 09:03:33PM -0800, Mark Adler wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Nix wrote:
> > These results are inverted, so in 1.2.3.5, gzdirect() returns 0 even
> > when the input source file is not compressed at all.
>
> All,
>
> zlib 1.2.3.7 is available, which can be used in addition to zlib 1.2.3.0 for testing the fixes to libxml.  
> gzdirect() now works as expected.
>
>     http://zlib.net/current/beta/

  thanks !

  as long as the breakage can be seen only with zlib beta and not with
the main release I think it's fine. We should however synchronize so
that I push a new libxml2 release before the next stable zlib one,

  right ?

Daniel

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