Hi, I was looking through some old stuff we postponed last year when we released Compress 1.1. One of them is COMPRESS-18 where I provided a patch but didn't commit it.
Our JAR package doesn't provide the stuff java.util.jar does and is actually pretty useless - there isn't anything in it not provded by the ZIP package already. COMPRESS-18 asks for some java.util.jar features that would be pretty convoluted to implement if we used our own ZIP stuff but trivial to implement if we used java.util.jar (which is what the patch does). The drawback of said patch is that it is not backwards compatible, see <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-18?focusedCommentId=12843202&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-12843202> Personally I don't expect anybody to use the JAR package at all today so I'd do with a warning, apply the patch and keep 1.2 as the version number for the next release. Other options would be the "convoluted implementation", "just don't fix it" or a bump to version 2.0. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
