[LUCENENET-555] Remove SharpZipLib dependancy

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Lucene.Net 3.0.3
• Fix Version/s: Lucene.Net 4.0
• Component/s: .NET API
• Labels: windows
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Eric Dorothy
• Created: 12/Nov/15 16:46
• Updated: 25/Mar/16 08:41
• Resolved: 25/Mar/16 08:41

Description

For a while now Lucene.Net has required the use of SharpZipLib for the use of compressed fields in the indexes. Can you please remove this dependency on a very old Zip library. Even the author has moved on and abandon the project in favor of his newer DotNetZip library.

I would suggest for the .NET API that you use the tools available in the System.IO.Compression Namespace (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compression%28v=vs.110%29.aspx) so that you don't have to have an external dependency to begin with. This namespace was introduced in .NET 2.0 and forward so no third party needs to be included.