Hi Stefan, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On 2011-07-26, Ted Dunning wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> >> wrote: > >>>> Perhaps the large test files could be generated on the fly if absent >>>> in the user's temp directory? > >>> This would require 5 GB of disk space in temp and a working ZIP64 >>> implementation to create the archives. Disk space is likely not that >>> big a problem anymore, but still it seems excessive. > >> Generating these files is an excellent test in itself. Just generate >> them >> and check the md5 to verify they are correct. Then use them. > > Oh, absolutely, no question. > > But (1) we are not there, yet (ZipArchiveInpuStream can read ZIP64 - did > I say that? - but we have no way to write them, yet) and (2) it will not > be sufficient. Compress really is a jungle of dialects for almost all > supported formats and we need to do interop tests. > > An archive created by InfoZIP is different from one created by PKZIP > which is different from Windows Compressed folders ... you get the idea. > If Compress' output matched that of InfoZIP it still wouldn't show that > we are able to read PKZIP created archives. > > In the end I expect our corpus of test archives to grow as interop > problems are discovered. Different approach: Create out of them separate Maven artifacts. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
