On 18.05.2007, at 19:17, Bear Giles wrote:
Torsten Curdt wrote:
Hm... seems like I disagree here. I want a simple library that
deals with common compression and archive formats
- tar
- ar
- cpio
- gzip
- bzip2
- zip
VFS is a filesystem abstraction layer. It may use the
library ....but should not provide the implementation IMO.
Compression and archive are really only related by a USES
relationship and there's no reason why they -have- to remain in the
same package.
But they are so often used in the same context that I would argue
it's a not worth splitting this up into separate libraries.
Especially as the JDK already provides the basic implementations of
some of the compressors.
CAB (windows) is an additional format,
sure ...let's add it :)
and you can make an argument for the Debian and Red Hat package
formats as well.
Debian is using ar and tgz. Just the structure of the archive makes
it a Debian package. Not exactly sure about RPMs.
...but where is your point? I am not saying we can't add other
implementations. Only that a separation would be a bit artificial.
Plus the two things have to work together very well from the API
point of view. Having this in one library would make sure that this
is the case.
cheers
--
Torsten
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