Re: [compress] Introducing the Compress-Interface

2006-03-08 Thread Mario Ivankovits
Hi! > >>> It appears to target the compress goals, is an active project(?) with > >>> releases, and most importantly uses a sane license (ASL). regarding TrueZip: I am aware of this project, but dont like the way they build their api. They use a class derived from java.io.File and override ALL meth

Re: [compress] Introducing the Compress-Interface

2006-03-08 Thread C. Grobmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> It appears to target the compress goals, is an active project(?) with >> releases, and most importantly uses a sane license (ASL). I'm not sure >> how much of a one-man show it is; but maybe we could be helping out >> there rather than trying to cre

Re: [compress] Introducing the Compress-Interface

2006-03-07 Thread Brett Porter
Henri Yandell wrote: > However, what do people think about: > > https://truezip.dev.java.net/ It doesn't yet have tar support (seems to have a different initial focus than what we are looking for), one developer, zero users (4 messages to the user list, all from the devleoper), and a rapid change

Re: [compress] Introducing the Compress-Interface

2006-03-07 Thread Henri Yandell
On 3/7/06, Sandy McArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, I don't think a compress project does much new. VFS already > seems to provide read-only access to common archive types. The JDK > comes with read-write support for Zip and Gzip files. And Ant has > read-write support for Zip, Tar, Gzip,

Re: [compress] Introducing the Compress-Interface

2006-03-07 Thread Sandy McArthur
First, I don't think a compress project does much new. VFS already seems to provide read-only access to common archive types. The JDK comes with read-write support for Zip and Gzip files. And Ant has read-write support for Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2 and maybe others. If you're going to start a new proj

[compress] Introducing the Compress-Interface

2006-03-07 Thread C. Grobmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, after thinking a lot about the difference of archivers and compressors, i am not sure how to proceed with it. At the moment [1], we have an Archiv Interface. This fits fine for Tar and Zip. If we imagine gunzip or bzip2 as an archive for an si