Re: [Caml-list] Simple compression library

[Dhek Uir <dhekuir@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Jacques-Henri Jourdan <
jacques-henri.jourdan@inria.fr> wrote:

> Le 02/02/2015 16:39, Dhek Uir a écrit :
> > I'm looking for a compression library such as camlzip to read/write
> > compressed files (any lossless compression algorithm is fine), but
> > having a function similar to Pervasives.output_value, which does not
> > seem to be available in camlzip (and I do not see how I could easily
> > implement it).
> >
> > Would it be simple to modify camlzip to add this function? I believe
> > that if this were the case, then it would already have been done, but
> > I might be wrong.
> >
> > Otherwise, is there another OCaml library with an API very similar to
> > Pervasives'? I'd prefer a lightweight solution (avoiding Core and
> > Batteries) if possible.
>
> Can't you do Marshal.to_string, and then use Camlzip on the generated
> string ?
>
>
Indeed, I can. I believe the hard part is actually the input_value
operation.
But I haven't looked enough into Marshal, maybe my solution can be found
there.

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