Bob Jamison wrote:

Actually, Johan Ceuppens already made streams-zlib.cpp for expanding .svgz's. All we need to do, maybe, is just add methods for compressing.

After the release, of course.

Also, I found a very nice iostreams wrapper of zlib here: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/compgeom/gzstream

And the library is only comprised of two files: gzstream.h gzstream.C

...with no dependencies except stdc++ & zlib. It is nice clean code, and LGPL. We could just throw the two files into /src, and add them to Makefile_insert. Voila!

And their tests compare their output with gzip. Just what we need.

Bob

Bob