Leo Simons wrote:
Peter Donald wrote:

Hi,

Heres a patch to remove Bzip, Zip and Tar from excaliburs build system. After thiis is done if someone could go into each of the directories and do a cvs tag and then cvs rm then that would be great. Tags of form;

BZIP_PREDELETE-tag, TAR_PREDELETE-tag, ZIP_PREDELETE-tag

Tar and zip are unused and unreleased libs. While all the people I know who were using bzip have since migrated the code into their own codebase.

http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-avalon-excalibur/release/

Zip & bzip have been released. I believe Nicola moved it to commons, but it is still in sandbox mode I think:

http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-commons-sandbox/io/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/compress/
Yes, I moved them but it seems nobody cares. The only ones that somewhat care are the Ant folks, where this code was taken from.

Maybe Ant should ship with these packages divided and reusable, no?

Wouldn't a better course of action be to mark these components as deprecated on the site and cvs, point to the replacement, and only actually remove after the commons replacement is released?
+1

I don't care for these comps that much (never used 'em), don't really feel like maintaining them...but I do want to improve the avalon stability perception....that said...it's only a few classes...comments?
Yes, good point.

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