Thanks. I will look at Java 7. Chris
On 20 Jul 2011, at 14:24, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 2011-07-20, Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> Stefan Bodewig wrote: > >>> On 2011-07-20, Chris Bamford wrote: > >>>> Can someone please tell me the status of Zip64 support in >>>> commons:compress? > >>> No support at all, sorry. > >>>> I read that it was supposed to go into 1.1, but I don't know how to tell. > >>> The people (myself included) who thought they might find time to do it >>> ran out of steam and available time prior to the release and so far >>> nobody has stepped up and provided patches to add support. > >>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-36> is used to track >>> (the lack of) progress. > >>> I wish I had a more positive answer > >> At least Java 7 will support it: >> http://blogs.oracle.com/xuemingshen/entry/zip64_support_for_4g_zipfile > > Interesting. > > I think many of the reasons that made the Ant team develop the original > ZIP package in 2001 (permissions, file name encoding and much more) may > finally be addressed by NIO2 and some of them even in java.util.zip > directly. > > And now we have some catching up to do, maybe we can do that in less > than 10 years 8-) > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Chris Bamford Software Engineer 2 - 8 Balfe Street Kings Cross, London, N1 9EG mobile +44 7860 405292 tel: +44 (0) 207 843 2300 web www.mimecast.com The information contained in this communication from [email protected] is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for use by [email protected] and others authorized to receive it. If you are not [email protected] you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in reliance of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Mimecast Ltd. is a company registered in England and Wales with the company number 4698693 VAT No. GB 832 5179 29 Registered Office:2 - 8 Balfe Street, Kings Cross London, N1 9EG Email Address: [email protected] This email message has been scanned for viruses by Mimecast. Mimecast delivers a complete managed email solution from a single web based platform. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com
