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This has bothered me from the start, what's the story behind that name? |
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There used to be a simple library that was a simple wrapper around the miniz C library in the main rust source code called "flate" which meant that was also a reserved library name. So, presumably @alexcrichton (or whoever else started it) decided to simply attach a 2 at the end for this to not conflict with it when flate2 was originally started. I believe the rust compiler switched to using flate2 from version 1.20. |
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Yep that's exactly why :) |
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There used to be a simple library that was a simple wrapper around the miniz C library in the main rust source code called "flate" which meant that was also a reserved library name. So, presumably @alexcrichton (or whoever else started it) decided to simply attach a 2 at the end for this to not conflict with it when flate2 was originally started. I believe the rust compiler switched to using flate2 from version 1.20.