23 Sep
2020
23 Sep
'20
5 p.m.
On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:26:13 +0300 Omer Katz <omer.drow@gmail.com> wrote:
I pointed out a use case for Brotli & HTTP2 as a concrete example for why it'd be more convenient to include brotli as a module. I'm sure there are other cases I haven't thought about.
I don't understand why LZMA should be included while zstd or brotli shouldn't. What's the actual policy here?
The main policy requirement is a maintainer willing to shepherd inclusion and then maintain the module in the stdlib. One person volunteered at some point to do that for LZMA, and it had desirabled characteristics as a compression algorithm, so it happened. (and when LZMA was included in 2011, ZStandard didn't even exist AFAIK) Regards Antoine.