Re: upgrading zlib?

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Tom Tromey wrote:

> PR 14856, upgrading our zlib, has been around for a while.  I took a
> look at this, and the new zlib pretty much just dropped in.  I had to
> tweak the Makefile.am (file names changed), but configure remained
> untouched.
>
> I think it is friendlier for us to ship an up-to-date release of zlib.
> Plus, it promises a performance improvement.  Finally, I think it
> would be pretty safe to import this now.  I have been running it here
> for a few days without any trouble.
>
> However, I realize it is stage 3 and I wanted to give people, and in
> particular Mark, a chance to veto this due to bad timing or other
> concerns.  Comments?
>  
Am I correct in believing that zlib only affects Java? 

If so, I am happy to defer this decision to you. 

(My opinion, FWIW, would be that you should do this import if (and 
pretty much only if) you can document that bugs are fixed or performance 
is improved; if not, then you're probably taking on a risk without much 
end-user upside.)

Thanks,

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