KFilterDev weirdness : docs and code not the same

[David Faure]

On Monday 27 October 2003 11:36, Brad Hards wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:22 pm, David Faure wrote:
> > On Monday 27 October 2003 11:10, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Sunday 26 October 2003 21:11, Luís Pedro Coelho wrote:
> > > > This contradicts the documentation.
> >
> > It was the documentation that was incorrect, in fact. See updated docu.
> On documentation, there is a comment in KFilterBase that it is "pretty much
> internal". 
Yes, since the API is so close to the way gzip and bzip2 work, and it shouldn't be
used from apps.

> Is it OK to use it for decompressing filters outside of kdelibs? 
Yes, it's ok to use it to create a new filter from it.

> I'm looking at trying to provide native support for Andrew Tridgell's rzip
> compression algorithm
OK. I hope the API fits :}

> Also, is it acceptable to only provide decompression?
I guess. No code will end up calling the compression case anyway.
If you add the mimetype in kio_tar (which does all archives type nowadays),
it will use the decompression filter, but that's all.

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David Faure -- faure at kde.org, dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
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