Re: commons compress status?

2007-05-19 Thread Torsten Curdt
On 18.05.2007, at 19:17, Bear Giles wrote: Torsten Curdt wrote: Hm... seems like I disagree here. I want a simple library that deals with common compression and archive formats - tar - ar - cpio - gzip - bzip2 - zip VFS is a filesystem abstraction layer. It may use the library

Re: commons compress status?

2007-05-18 Thread Torsten Curdt
On 18.05.2007, at 05:13, Bear Giles wrote: Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote: I therefore suggest that the tar methods should be migrated to the vfs module (if suitable) and that the compress module should contain methods that can compress/uncompress streams (which is easily extendable to

Re: commons compress status?

2007-05-18 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On 5/18/07, Torsten Curdt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VFS is a filesystem abstraction layer. It may use the library but should not provide the implementation IMO. +1, compression is a rather important topic in itself. -- My cats know that I am a loser who goes out for hunting every day

Re: commons compress status?

2007-05-18 Thread Bear Giles
Torsten Curdt wrote: Hm... seems like I disagree here. I want a simple library that deals with common compression and archive formats - tar - ar - cpio - gzip - bzip2 - zip VFS is a filesystem abstraction layer. It may use the library but should not provide the implementation IMO.

Re: commons compress status?

2007-05-17 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev den 17-05-2007 00:20: You can't do that if you only see archives as boring things used in backups. Backups that are either windows (zip) or unix (tar), yawn. If you go hardcore, you'll notice that a lot of common file formats provide support for arbitrary data to be

Re: commons compress status?

2007-05-17 Thread Bear Giles
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote: I therefore suggest that the tar methods should be migrated to the vfs module (if suitable) and that the compress module should contain methods that can compress/uncompress streams (which is easily extendable to files, http connections etc). By doing so there

Re: commons compress status?

2007-05-17 Thread Mario Ivankovits
Hi! I agree that the 'compress' tar classes should be removed and a pointer left to the VFS project. We've already moved an early version (before the api cleanup) of the COMPRESS codebase to VFS. The thing is, that VFS normally would NOT like to provide the implementation for a certain

Re: commons compress status?

2007-05-16 Thread Henri Yandell
On 5/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in merging some earlier archival work (in C) into commons compress and would like to know who to coordinate with. The changes will be... substantial... and I'll probably just fork the project for now, with a goal of merging

Re: commons compress status?

2007-05-16 Thread bgiles
On 5/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in merging some earlier archival work (in C) into commons compress and would like to know who to coordinate with. The changes will be... substantial... and I'll probably just fork the project for now, with a goal of

Re: commons compress status?

2007-05-16 Thread Bear Giles
Torsten Curdt wrote: On 15.05.2007, at 23:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in merging some earlier archival work (in C) into commons compress and would like to know who to coordinate with. The changes will be... substantial... and I'll probably just fork the project for now,

Re: commons compress status?

2007-05-16 Thread Henri Yandell
On 5/16/07, Bear Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Torsten Curdt wrote: On 15.05.2007, at 23:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in merging some earlier archival work (in C) into commons compress and would like to know who to coordinate with. The changes will be... substantial...

commons compress status?

2007-05-15 Thread bgiles
I'm interested in merging some earlier archival work (in C) into commons compress and would like to know who to coordinate with. The changes will be... substantial... and I'll probably just fork the project for now, with a goal of merging in late summer. Also, what version of the JDK do