In general I like the release early, release often model. WRT helping I'm afraid that ATM I won't be able to do more than help with checking an RC.
Gary On Oct 6, 2013, at 10:27, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all > > we've already had users asking for a new release - in particular because > of 7z support. > > From the top of my head there are two things I'd like to address before > the release and one that would be nice but I know I won't find time to > look into. > > Should go into the release: > > * support for writing compressed 7z archives. In particular I'd love to > have SevenZOutputFile default to LZMA2 compression with the release. > > * look into and potentially fix date and permission handling issues in > arj. > > I've created a test arj archive on Linux and Compress doesn't read the > date properly. It is quite possible the Unix versions of arj create > different date fields and I want to look into the Open Source C arj > implementation to figure out what's up - same for permissions, which > I've only added because I saw the Linux version supported them. > > Nice to have: > > * decompression support in arj. I'm afraid this takes quite a bit of > effort. > > If you have anything to add, please do. Also, if you want to look into > the new APIs for LZMA, arj or 7z before the release when we might change > it without fear of breaking anything, please do so soon. Real world > tests of the new code against existing files would be great as well. > > The amount of time I have at hand (as well as my enthusiasm, TBH) comes > in unpredictable bursts, so I can't give a timeframe for the release. > Helpings hands are more than welcome :-) > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
