Comment 1 for bug 1687302

Hello Andrey,

thank you for taking the time to report this. Could you please the linked branch a try? It extends the current trunk by automatically decompressing compressed (GZip, BZip2 and XZ if the corresponding compression programs are installed and in the path) files to temporary files before opening them. This avoids having to reimplement transparent decompression and having to link against the related libraries keeping this a soft dependency and changing very little code.

Best regards, Adam.