Hi all, ZIP64 is the nickname for the changes to the ZIP archive format that are necessary to support files > 4GB (both individual entries and complete archives) or archives with more than 64k entries. Ant's ZIP package does not support this and neither does java.util.zip prior to Java7[1].
Over in Commons land I've started to implement ZIP64 support in Commons Compress. Once the code is released the Compress Antlib will transparently support ZIP64 without any changes required there. All you'd need to do is upgrading Commons Compress. In order to implement it, Commons Compress must switch to Java5 as the few parts of java.util.zip that are used in CC (Inflater/Deflater) have an issuficient API for big entries (getTotalIn returns an int which is too small, getBytesRead which returns a long has been added in Java5). Since Ant is stuck with Java 1.4 for now I do not plan to backport the changes from Commons Compress over to Ant's ZIP package. The reflection needed will be too much and I've started to embrace generics and other Java5 features in the modified code base, so porting is just too painful. Users that need ZIP64 can be pointed to the Compress Antlib IMHO. Stefan [1] Java7 claims to support it but from what I've seen the OpenJDK implementation is likely wrong. I'll dig into OpenJDK's code at one point in time and open a bug report if my suspicion remains true. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
