Created attachment 162096 [details] wandio.shar C library for compressed file I/O Libwandio is a software library written in C that provides an API for transparently reading from and writing to files using a variety of supported compression methods. Provided pthreads are available, I/O performance will be improved by doing any compression and/or decompression using a separate thread. WWW: http://research.wand.net.nz/software/libwandio.php
Created attachment 162101 [details] wandio.shar updated port options to include all supported file formats
Should we put this ports on archivers category?
I'm not sure what the criteria are for inclusion in the archivers category, but this library also supports formats that I wouldn't expect to be considered archival, e.g., retrieving files (compressed or not) via HTTP. That said, I'm happy to defer to your expertise on this. If you think it makes more sense in archivers then let me know and I can move it.
A commit references this bug: Author: danfe Date: Mon Oct 26 09:29:29 UTC 2015 New revision: 400178 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/400178 Log: Add a port of wandio, a library written in C that provides an API for transparent reading and writing of files using a variety of supported compression methods and transports. PR: 203805 (modified) Submitted by: Alistair King Changes: head/devel/Makefile head/devel/wandio/ head/devel/wandio/Makefile head/devel/wandio/distinfo head/devel/wandio/pkg-descr head/devel/wandio/pkg-plist
I tend to agree with Alistair: "archivers" is a less good category than "devel", being 1) overly specific, and 2) mostly associated with tools rather than libraries for software development. Port was added as or ports r400178, thank you!