Some of the planned features include:
+- Remove some of the old porting cruft. since we no longer support
+ FIXME-2011: in mid to late 2011, remove the following directories:
+ amiga, atari, msdos, nt, os2, vms
+
+- Separate out the shell scripts like gzexe into a new little package;
+ these scripts are less used and less reliable and should be optional.
+
+- Internationalize by using gettext and setlocale.
+
- Structure the sources so that the compression and decompression code
form a library usable by any program, and write both gzip and zip on
top of this library. This would ideally be a reentrant (thread safe)
failure of a complete sector. Each block could be extracted
independently, but this reduces the compression ratio.
+ For one possible approach to this, please see:
+
+ http://www.samba.org/netfilter/diary/gzip.rsync.patch
+
- Use a larger window size to deal with some large redundant files that
'compress' currently handles better than gzip.
- Implement the -e (encrypt) option.
-
+
Send comments to <bug-gzip@gnu.org>.
+
+
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