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Xerial-compatible Snappy framing support for golang

go-xerial-snappy

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Xerial-compatible Snappy framing support for golang.

Packages using Xerial for snappy encoding use a framing format incompatible with basically everything else in existence. This package wraps Go's built-in snappy package to support it.

Apps that use this format include Apache Kafka (see https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python/issues/126#issuecomment-35478921 for details).