Hai Zhang created COMPRESS-611:
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Summary: commons-compress 1.21 became incompatible below Android
8.0
Key: COMPRESS-611
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-611
Project: Commons Compress
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 1.21
Reporter: Hai Zhang
The change
https://github.com/apache/commons-compress/commit/06e05dab3bcb9044cc599f0ff18be78c54a8fbae
added a static LinkOption[] array into IOUtils, and also made use of
LinkOption in tar code.
However, LinkOption is a Java 8 class that's only available on Adnroid 8.0 and
beyond. And with the static field in IOUtils, which will result in loading the
LinkOption class during IOUtils class initialization, this suddenly made all
classes referencing IOUtils to require Android 8.0.
In comparision, most of the functionalities in commons-compress 1.20 was
working fine on Android 5.0+.
I discovered this because a real user wrote to me about this issue, and a lot
of users in developing countries may still be using older devices, so it seems
to me supporting Android 5.0+ may still be a good thing. Meanwhile according to
https://www.androidpolice.com/googles-latest-android-version-distribution-numbers-show-11-in-dead-heat-with-10/
, raising supported Android platform version from 5.0 to 8.0 will result in
the percentage of supported device to decrease from 98% to 82.7%, a >10%
decrease.
So could you kindly consider supporting Android 5.0 again by making the usage
of Java 8 NIO file APIs optional?
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