Hi, I've started to write a tiny amount of code for 2.0 to get things moving (more on this later) and have already reached a point where Java7 may make a difference.
I'm trying to define an API for attributes beyond the set offered by ArchivEntry so far - many (AR, ARJ, CPIO, ZIP, TAR, DUMP) of our entries provide POSIX permissions and file attributes, some (ZIP, ARJ and 7z) technically provide DOS attributes. Something like the interfaces of the java.nio.file.attribute package[1] (probably without the attribute view overhead) might come handy. OTOH it wouldn't be too complex to implement the same ideas ourselves. Compress 1.x is at Java5, personally I don't think Java6 would give us any benefits. I don't know about the other improvements in NIO2 but the java.nio.file package looks useful for compress. Therefore I'd tend to go with Java7 as requirement for compress2. Is this too ambitious? Should we poll the user list? Stefan [1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/attribute/package-summary.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
