Hi Stefan, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> Hi, > > I've started to write a tiny amount of code for 2.0 to get things moving > (more on this later) and have already reached a point where Java7 may > make a difference. > > I'm trying to define an API for attributes beyond the set offered by > ArchivEntry so far - many (AR, ARJ, CPIO, ZIP, TAR, DUMP) of our entries > provide POSIX permissions and file attributes, some (ZIP, ARJ and 7z) > technically provide DOS attributes. Something like the interfaces of > the java.nio.file.attribute package[1] (probably without the attribute > view overhead) might come handy. OTOH it wouldn't be too complex to > implement the same ideas ourselves. > > Compress 1.x is at Java5, personally I don't think Java6 would give us > any benefits. I don't know about the other improvements in NIO2 but the > java.nio.file package looks useful for compress. Therefore I'd tend to > go with Java7 as requirement for compress2. > > Is this too ambitious? Should we poll the user list? If we maintain binary compatibility, we should not break JDK level compatibility without good reason. However, if compress2 is *not* meant to be binary compatible, I'd start with Java 7 right away. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
