Re: support for symlinks

2010-11-06 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2010-10-29, Max Birkoff wrote: > Do you have any ideas about when commons compress 1.2 might be > released? Usually new releases happen when anybody of the committers feels it is time to do so - and volunteers to create the release. In commons-compress case there have only been two (seemingly

Re: support for symlinks

2010-10-29 Thread Max Birkoff
s-compress mailing list in the meantime. Thanks very much again, and I hope this finds you well! max --- On Fri, 10/29/10, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > From: Stefan Bodewig > Subject: Re: support for symlinks > To: dev@ant.apache.org > Date: Friday, October 29, 2010, 1:09 AM > On 2010

Re: support for symlinks

2010-10-29 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2010-10-27, Max Birkoff wrote: > I must admit to being a little confused by your suggestion. On one > hand you seem to say "go to another project" and on the other hand, > ant's code base contains the tar code that I have been using and would > like to improve. 8-) This is what I wanted to sa

Re: support for symlinks

2010-10-27 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2010-10-27, Max Birkoff wrote: > I would like to add support for symlinks to: > org.apache.tools.tar.TarEntry and friends. I'd recommend you'd put that effort into the tar classes in Apache Commons Compress <http://commons.apache.org/compress/> instead. The tar and

support for symlinks

2010-10-26 Thread Max Birkoff
Hello, I would like to add support for symlinks to: org.apache.tools.tar.TarEntry and friends. I have examined the archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.ant.devel/ and cannot see the matter discussed there. I have seen the warning: Ant is not symbolic link aware in moves