Project maintenance

[nvsnvikram]

We are planning to use JZlib in our project. I wanted to know the project status as there is not much activity on issues or code updates. Can you let me know the status of this project?

[sunny-shu]

@ymnk
Is this project still under maintenance，If needed, I can help you maintain this project，I am familiar with zlib

[headius]

We are also willing to help maintain this library. In particular, we need to add JPMS module info to support JRuby modularity going forward (jruby/jruby#4835).

Given the lack of recent activity, it may be necessary to officially fork jzlib to a new organization.

[headius]

I have sent email to info@jcraft to try to reach @ymnk and find out the plans for this library. If I hear back I will reply here.

[headius]

I never received a response to my email so I'm going to proceed to take over maintenance and duplicate this library on my account. I'll post here when I have it up and working.

[norrisjeremy]

Hi @headius,

FYI, we have embedded a version of JZlib into our JSch fork over at https://github.com/mwiede/jsch/tree/master/src/main/java/com/jcraft/jsch/jzlib.

We tweaked it a bit (reformatted code and changed visibility of several classes & methods) since our intent is to only use it for SSH compression purposes within JSch and not provide a general purpose Zlib implementation for downstream consumers.

One major item we also performed recently was to rewrite the unit tests from Scala to Java (see https://github.com/mwiede/jsch/tree/master/src/test/java/com/jcraft/jsch/jzlib).

Not sure if any of the changes we made could be of interest to your fork.

Thanks,
Jeremy

[norrisjeremy]

HI @headius,

Also, I'm not sure if you noticed that the dev branch of this repo (https://github.com/ymnk/jzlib/tree/dev) has a few additional commits in it (not sure if they would be applicable to your fork or not)?

Thanks,
Jeremy

[headius]

Yes, in fact I rediscovered this issue while looking for a fix to the modification time bug. There's also a pull request on that branch that claims to support concatenated GZip files, but as it broke some ruby tests I have reverted it on my branch to revisit later.

I welcome contributors! https://github.com/jruby/jzlib