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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 04:39:14PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On Dec 17 2009, Johan Hake wrote:
>
> >On Wednesday 16 December 2009 23:32:04 Anders Logg wrote:
> >>Thanks!
> >>
> >>Strange that the files were not gzipped. I thought they would be when
> >>saved as foo.xml.gz from DOLFIN, but apparently not.
> >>
> >>Looks like a bug.
> >
> >No it isn't. The xml library we use automagically unzip any zipped
> >files. When we save zip files we do it by explicitly writing the
> >strings to file. We need to provide a proper zip algorithm.

Why isn't it a bug? If one does

  file = File("foo.xml.gz")
  file << foo

then one expects the file to be gzipped.

So until we implement gzip on output we should probably disable that
suffix for output.

--
Anders


> >boost provide such frameworks with its ostream library. I is quite
> >neat, but of course it makes heavy use of templates. I used it in
> >a previous version of TriTetMesh, but abandoned it because I could
> >not figure out template related stuff. It should be quite straight
> >forward for a C++ Guru to include for our xml files.
> >
>
> I looked at Boost for the compressed .vtu files, and it was horrible
> and incomplete. Instead, I used zlib to compress parts of the .vtu
> files. It was pretty easy, so it should be easy to compress entire
> files.
>
> Garth



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