Alex Blewitt wrote: > Well, I'm about half way through being able to read my HelloWorld.jar > file; I've got the basic codec working, as well as decoding the > constant pools that come at the front of an archive. There's still > some missing bits -- for example, I don't handle the s=2 set of > encodings (largely because I'm not quite sure I understand from the > spec how I'm supposed to treat them) and there's a really interesting > feature of band encodings which says that they can be encoded > arbitrarily by sending an effective escape character ... but > fortunately, I don't have any of those in the simple case. > > Whilst it's no-where near ready (and may be ripe for several > refactorings yet) is it worth taking what I've done and putting it in > SVN so that others can see/play around with it? Unfortunately, it's a > bit of a linear process since they're all variable length encodings; > so you have do decode part N before you can decode part N+1. On the > other hand, if anyone wanted to work on a compressor then that's a > parallel activity ... > > Anyway, I'm assuming that it might need a new directory under > /classlib/ for storing the pack200 stuff (hopefully so that it can be > used as a standalone module e.g. for providing the command line tool)
Since it is part of the SE API too I suggest that we put it directly into ARCHIVE and then let the command-line tool use it from there. Since we want to keep ARCHIVE working throughout we can create a branch if you think the pack200 dev will be dangerous (I think we can handle it in-place, but whatever). Regards, Tim > so there's a bit of administrivia to sort out; hopefully, someone here > can help me with that :-) I should also point out that I've not tried > compiling/running it with the harmony VM -- largely because there > isn't one on a Mac (yet) so I'm working with the standard > Eclipse+Apple VM. There's a danger that my code might inadvertently > break the build, therefore :-/ > > I've also got to format the code and put the Apache copyright headers > on -- I don't mind doing that prior to making a zip and attaching it > in JIRA (which I'm assuming is the right process for initial uploads). > If someone could point me in the right direction for where those are, > that would be helpful. > > Alex. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
