X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=268777f801d94444f11a73022d7462fbb7d87dd8;hb=00e60028b1d8e2ba97cb149ee8f8053febe59c94;hp=865be9250782efaa0b0be10d204b7194288bbf48;hpb=c30ab99c9aa14c7010dc4e76871a525b668d7ac9;p=debian%2Fgzip diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 865be92..268777f 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ TODO file for gzip. Some of the planned features include: +- Remove some of the old porting cruft, since we no longer support it. + +- 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) @@ -50,9 +57,26 @@ Some of the planned features include: 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 Jean-loup Gailly . + +Send comments to . + + +======================================================================== + +Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2006, 2009-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free +Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution.