Re: [boost] Compression libraries such as zlib and zstd ought to be first class boost libraries

A broader difficulty I'm having with zlib in particular is poor cmake

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support.

ZLib doesn't need to support cmake, you can do it yourself by listing the .c files that the zlib library uses and compiling them together into your own specified target.

Vinnie, Technically true. But in practice various things need to consume zlib via cmake. and that's a bit broken. It's not just me that thinks so: https://github.com/madler/zlib/issues/831 I empathise with the maintainer, it's thankless work that I try to avoid in my spare time too. - Nigel Stewart