Re: [pdf-devel] Streams solution proposal

[jemarch]

Hello JP.

    I attach my proposal of streams problems solution. It does not
    contain the promised self-testing bash script, as I'm a bit tired
    and have to weak up early, but will do it tomorrow :)

Would be good if we could use the bash script from the check unit
tests infrastructure. Any idea about that?

    As I said on another email, I have created a new backend that
    takes a FILE*.

That backend is really useful for testing purposes, but the streams
should use the fsys implementation to access files stored in
filesystems (we will be able to test the streams operating through a
fsys as soon as we get the default filesystem completed). Anyway we
can integrate it in the library code.

About the use of circular buffers, I dont really see big advantages in
switching the current implementation to use them. Maybe we will find
them useful in the future, but in that case I would say to introduce
your implementation in the pdf-types module.

Some of your improvements on pdf-filter.c are quite interesting,
especially for testing purposes.

So what do you think about to integrate the c-file backend and the
improvements on pdf-filter to work with the current implementation of
streams?

Thanks.