Re: [compress] Moving forward...

2006-04-26 Thread Mario Ivankovits
Hi! > In short: i would like to keep the new, clean, documented build bridge, > and enhance it with plexus features after it's stable. I made a quick look at plexus and I think you are right, there isnt much difference (though, it depends on some object lookup facility which is not available outsid

Re: [compress] Moving forward...

2006-04-26 Thread C. Grobmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Brett said that it provides an archive bridging API, so I was > wondering how that part of the Plexus one compared to your work Chris. > I presume their one is tried and tested in Maven 2, so that's a pro > for pulling it over into the Commons compon

Re: [compress] Moving forward...

2006-04-25 Thread Henri Yandell
On 4/25/06, C. Grobmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Henri Yandell wrote: > > http://svn.plexus.codehaus.org/trunk/plexus-components/plexus-archiver/ btw. > > > > How does that compare to what you have Chris? > > It's quite similar to what we hav

Re: [compress] Moving forward...

2006-04-25 Thread C. Grobmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > * VFS release is held up by lack of a stable/promoted compress. Mario said so. > * Maven (in plexus at codehaus) have a fork of compress with bugs fixed. True. Plexus has not factory, so it's not perfectly usable > * Chris has an archive bridgin

Re: [compress] Moving forward...

2006-04-25 Thread C. Grobmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henri Yandell wrote: > http://svn.plexus.codehaus.org/trunk/plexus-components/plexus-archiver/ btw. > > How does that compare to what you have Chris? It's quite similar to what we have. But i would prefer to build upon the old commons code, enhance i

Re: [compress] Moving forward...

2006-04-24 Thread Henri Yandell
On 4/24/06, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Henri Yandell wrote: > > * Maven (in plexus at codehaus) have a fork of compress with bugs fixed. > > Maven uses plexus-archiver, which has the same ancestry (from Ant) but > is not a fork. It provides an archive bridging API, which I hope is >

Re: [compress] Moving forward...

2006-04-24 Thread Brett Porter
Henri Yandell wrote: Is the following a correct summary of the current state of compress: * Tar, BZip2 and Zip libraries (taken from Ant). The Tar one was originally Tim Endres' public domain ice library. * VFS release is held up by lack of a stable/promoted compress. * Maven (in plexus at codeh

[compress] Moving forward...

2006-04-24 Thread Henri Yandell
Is the following a correct summary of the current state of compress: * Tar, BZip2 and Zip libraries (taken from Ant). The Tar one was originally Tim Endres' public domain ice library. * VFS release is held up by lack of a stable/promoted compress. * Maven (in plexus at codehaus) have a fork of com