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The "Compress" page has been changed by StefanBodewig: https://wiki.apache.org/commons/Compress?action=diff&rev1=7&rev2=8 ##language:en = Component Overview = - Compress is an API for working with the following files: tar, zip, bzip2, cpio, ar, gz, jar. + Compress is an API for working with the various archiving and compression formats. = Quick Start = - *compress* is a stream based API. It's original code in this component came from Avalon's Excalibur, but originally from Ant, as far as life in Apache goes. It has migrated via: + *compress* is a stream based API. Some of it's original code came from Avalon's Excalibur, but originally from Ant, as far as life in Apache goes. It has migrated via: Ant -> Avalon-Excalibur -> Commons-IO -> Commons-Compress. More credits can be found in NOTICE.txt file. @@ -14, +14 @@ Some experimental code makes it possible to modify archiver and compressor files. This means you can delete from for example a zip file. - Please note: + Historical notes: There were discussion of "sponsoring" compress with code from TrueZip (https://truezip.dev.java.net/). The result was, not to include any code from this project (see mailinglists). There was a discussion about the complex file based implementation too. The result was to start again with a stream based implementation and move the old one to a branch. More information about the old implementation can be found on the CompressImplementationDetails page. = Roadmap = - Compress looks like moving to proper now and prepares for the first release. If you want to help, here is the CompressRoadmap. + We're currenlty discussing a 2.0 API that fully embraces generics and tries to address a few pain points discovered over the years Compress 1.x has been around. + If you want to help, here is the CompressRoadmap. == Archiver == To pack an archive, you have to get an archiver stream via the ArchiverFactory. Add your streams to the archiver and stream. - Archiver streams are: ZIP, CPIO, AR, TAR, JAR. + Archiver streams are: ZIP, CPIO, AR, TAR, JAR, DUMP. 7z, ARJ. === Creating a ZIP-File === @@ -50, +51 @@ in.close();}}} == Compressor == - Same goes for Compressor. Compressor streams are: bz2 and gz. + Same goes for Compressor. Compressor streams are: bz2, gz, lzma, xz, pack200, Z. === Compressing a file === {{{final OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(output); --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
