Hi Activity Workshop, Thanks for the response.
I've set the forwarded URL to the GpsPrune wishlist in the Debian Bug Tracker. I can't recommend a cross-platform compression library to easily implement the requested feature, so we can leave this issue on the wishlist for now. Kind Regards, Bas On 02/23/2015 07:14 PM, m...@activityworkshop.net wrote: > Hi, > > No, it's actually suggestion number 54 on that very list, together with > a link back to Calum's bug submission. > > Yes I've considered it, but it's not a high priority for me unless > somebody else requests it too. Unlike gzip there's no easy way to add > cross-platform support for those formats without adding extra > dependencies (or extra complexity to handle the availability or not of > such dependencies). > > If only one person wants this (_if_ he even still wants it after all > these years), then it probably won't happen. I know it's awkward to > uncompress such files and then load them into GpsPrune, but it is at > least possible. > > If I've missed something obvious and there's a trivial way to implement > (cross-platform) support for this request, then I'm all ears. > > Cheers, > activityworkshop > > > On 2015-02-22 14:12, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >> Control: tags 651364 upstream >> Control: forwarded 651364 m...@activityworkshop.net >> >> Hi Activity Workshop, >> >> In Debian Bug #651364 Calum Mackay asked for support of other common >> compression formats in GpsPrune. >> >> Would you consider this request (quoted below)? >> >> It looks closely related to wishlist suggestion #62. >> >> http://activityworkshop.net/software/gpsprune/wishlist.html >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> Bas >> >> On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:10:23 +0000 Calum Mackay >> <calum.mac...@cdmnet.org> wrote: >>> gpsprune currently supports reading compressed GPX files, in the gzip(1) >>> compression format. >>> >>> It would be nice to also support the other common compressed formats: >>> bzip2(1) & xz(1), especially as they both outperform gzip(1). >>> >>> I should appreciate it if you would please consider this request. >>> >>> best regards, >>> calum. -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
