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[Discussion] Remove support for old compression algorithms

See original GitHub issue

Expected behavior

Bzip2, FastLz, Lzma, Snappy are old and superseded by compression algorithms like Brotli, Zstd, Zlib, etc. We should consider removing them or moving them under netty-contrib.

Netty version

5.0.0.X

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Created a year ago
Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

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chrisvestcommented, Apr 7, 2022

I’d be in favour of moving them to a contrib repo. Then they won’t be locking people out of upgrading Netty, in case they have obscure usages somewhere.

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sinnlosernamecommented, Apr 15, 2022

Another challenge for us will be to make public or replicate test scenarios that we reuse for all compression codecs: AbstractEncoderTest, AbstractDecoderTest, AbstractIntegrationTest.

A contrib project for legacy compression algorithms could import the abstract test classes from the main project, couldn’t it?

Also what would you think about moving compression algorithms into an own module? I think this was mentioned in a contributor meetup before and in #4024. Might be helpful for #8541 too.

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