Re: [compress] Site generation is broken

2009-03-23 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
Hi, the checkstyle.xml is missing - I create an issue and add a patch. If need to do that now comment out the pom Cheers + Thanks for the hint, Christian On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Siegfried Goeschl wrote: > Hi folks, > > 'mvn site' fails due to a missing "checkstyle.xml" in pom.xml - is t

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-23 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
Hi Asankha, there was efford before months to improve the underlying component, commons compress. Compress was one of the showstoppers for VFS. After it was clear that compress needs more time than VFS to be released, the VFS team copied the compress classes into VFS and released that component. S

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-24 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
Hi, > I would be interested to see write support for files such as Jar, Tar > and Zip etc in VFS. If you already have some code that works, thats great ok, i didn't finish all the code necessary, but i remember there are only smaller chunks left to write. > I am a Jakarta HttpCore committer as w

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
mpress that can modify the actual > > zip files. I submitted it and then fell off the face of the earth. > > In July, I came back an fixed up some of the concerns, but I think the > > pause ended up losing some of the interest in this. > > > > http://issues.apache.o

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
ah very well- i checked out truezip yesterday and found it quite good. Its time to ask again if compress should go to dormancy when such a good component is available with ASF license. Regards, Chris On 8/25/07, Asankha C. Perera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chris > > It may be more effective

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
> That's not true :) hehe ok sorry then :-) >...but it would be still a bit of work. When I was > trying to add a new archiver implementation I was frustrated with > some of the details of the current API I remember. Can you be more concrete? Maybe i can add some improvements here. In fact, i c

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
> I am not sure I totally agree here. Last time I looked it was pretty > much a one-man show from the original author. I wanted to provide a > patch for some feature. It did not fit into his vision of truezip. So > I left. (Did I hear someone say fork?) IMO extending java.io.File is > also a very q

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
> > In fact, i compared the TrueZip implementation to Compress yesterday. > > We have quite less features and on some points in the code we depend > > on java.util.zip packages. > > Why is using java.uil.zip bad? In some discussion in here people said that they wanted implementation which is indep