On 31 March 2012 05:48, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Compress' trunk has been sitting on valuable content for too long now: > > * XZ compression > > * BZIP2 now reads streams created by pbzip2 (parallel bzip2) > > * TAR has been largely improved to support reading and writing big > files, old files and files with long names - as well as encodings > other than ASCII - in several ways supporting multiple dialects. > > There is one backwards incompatible change, tar now uses the platform's > native encoding for file names (like GNU tar does) rather than > ISO-8859-1.
There are a few places where the default charset is being used. It's not clear whether these are intentional or not, so I have marked them with TODOs. We should either document that the default is OK, or use a fixed charset, e.g. ASCII. > I intend to build a release candidate sometime during the next week > unless anybody objects. In order to incorporate feedback before I > create the RC I've built the site for review at > http://people.apache.org/~bodewig/commons-compress/ > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
