On 2014-10-23, Damjan Jovanovic wrote:

> I've been hoping to steal commons-compress's cleaner and faster LZW
> decompressor, and use it in commons-imaging for TIFF and GIF files,
> and I've finally managed to make a patch to that effect.

Cool.

> This requires moving LZWInputStream to a
> org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.lzw package and making it
> public. Any objections to this?

Which means it would now become a public API, right?  No problem with
it.

> Also imaging would have to depend on a SNAPSHOT of compress to be able
> to import LZWInputStream, at least until the next release. Which is
> when?

The last release happened just two weeks ago and we haven't had any code
changes since then.  I don't see any problem with cutting a small point
release if/once imaging wants to do a release :-)

> I am attaching patches in case anyone wants to have a look, but I can
> commit them myself if there are no objections.

You know the LZW code better than anybody else, go ahead.

Stefan

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