>> We could also add some new methods with partial implementations, for example >> putArchiveEntry(File) >> extractFile(File basedir, Entry) > > If this is a common usecase, yes. The only real user of a simial API > I know is Ant and here those methods wouldn't help since they don't > provide a way to specify permissions and so on. >
This would be good - I am thinking on some "breaking a stream into chunks" logic. Currently we have this kind of logic in all stream classes. I am not sure if one can write it such generic, but I think this really would improve the stuff. About extractFile(File): Before a while I made a proposal for such File-based methods. I really think now that we should not mix the streambased classes with classes which operate on File. Maybe I am too rigorous here. But at the moment I think that a user should use a utility class for extractFile(File basedir, Entry). This could have more such methods: compressTo(String compressor, File in, File out); Cheers Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
