hi asankha, the point is, that VFS depends on Compress which is a Sandbox component. Cause of this Mario copied the compress code into VFS. It was planned that whenever compress leaves the sandbox VFS will have an dependency on it.
Will wrote code for compress like i did. When it is submitted we have to release compress first and depend VFS to it. It may be more effective with that open TrueZip issue. Problem is that not too much people are interested in seeing compress out of the sandbox. Best, Chris On 8/25/07, Asankha C. Perera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Will > > I haven't yet got a chance to look at this in detail.. but your patch > seems to be only for compress? and not for the VFS provider? If so its > not clear to me how can one use it for VFS > > thanks > asankha > > Will Pugh wrote: > > I wrote some zip writing code for compress 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.org/jira/browse/SANDBOX-183 > > > > > > --Will > > > > Chr. Grobmeier wrote: > >> 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 well, and also the lead developer > >>> of Apache Synapse. So maybe I could try to be of help to get your code > >>> into the SVN with the help of a VFS committer? > >>> > >> > >> I think this would work; i contributed a few lines code before with > >> the help of the commons people in here. I think Mario (VFS) may also > >> be interested in this. > >> > >> > >>> Cant you rely on java.util.zip and java.util.jar packages instead of > >>> compress? > >>> > >> > >> Yes, we could, but as far as i understood people didn't want to use > >> this sun-specific packages and implemented these classes themself > >> under Apache License. However, its possible to extend compress with > >> own packages, so one can rely on those you mentioned with writing some > >> kind of plugin. > >> > >> Best, > >> Chris > >> > >> > >>> thanks > >>> asankha > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
