Re: [9front] move zlib source from ghostscript to ape/lib/z and update to latest zlib

[ori@eigenstate.org]

> Hey Cinap, I didn't mean harm with the patches, it was my bad to
> include contrib(I had a local zlib copy lingering for weeks with those
> contrib dirs, didn't notice I still had Pascal), I think with this one
> it can be made clear what changed and what didn't.

Thanks for updating!

This patch looks easier to review, but there seems to be some binary
junk at the end of it. Can you try resending?

> This patchset doesn't move out stuff from gs for now. Most of the diff
> is on the INDEX and the Changelog files alongside the new ones. (gzio
> became 4 different files, there's a new tests dir for the tests, some
> bugfixes and a new test.)

Out of curiosity, have you tried running the tests? Might be a good
sanity check.

> Take note: I've changed the mkfile cflags on this one, they seem to be
> fine, but its up to you guys to consider it uneeded or not, I guess
> this is not final.
> 
> as for using APE or not, I'd love to see some separation/at least get
> rid of gs for page eventually, but thats a distant future.
> 
> Em qui., 5 de mar. de 2020 às 16:18, <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> escreveu:
>>
>> what i'd like to see is an actual diff of what changed in zlib. i cannot
>> belief there are too many changes. zlib is very old library. i'm very
>> curious why we need a specific version of zlib and what features did
>> they add.
>>
>> once we have a overview what we'r getting into, then we can move it out
>> of ghostscript.
>>
>> --
>> cinap