Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-30 Thread Filip Defoort
Asankha C. Perera wrote: Hi Filip I am in the process of getting TrueZip uploaded to Maven2 (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MAVENUPLOAD-1693) and also finishing up http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-106 as per the comments. However when I try to create a Zip archive on an FTP site, th

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-29 Thread Asankha C. Perera
Hi Filip I am in the process of getting TrueZip uploaded to Maven2 (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MAVENUPLOAD-1693) and also finishing up http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-106 as per the comments. However when I try to create a Zip archive on an FTP site, there is still a problem wh

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-29 Thread Filip Defoort
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote: Filip Defoort skrev den 27-08-2007 18:01: Good luck doing that cross platform in java :) Well, I didn't mean mount as in actually mount a file system, just unzip and maintain an uncompressed directory tree of the portions of the zip file that are in use in java

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-29 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Filip Defoort skrev den 27-08-2007 18:01: Good luck doing that cross platform in java :) Well, I didn't mean mount as in actually mount a file system, just unzip and maintain an uncompressed directory tree of the portions of the zip file that are in use in java.io.tmpdir. Right now truezip is

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-27 Thread Filip Defoort
Torsten Curdt wrote: On 25.08.2007, at 17:26, Filip Defoort wrote: Mario Ivankovits wrote: Hi! It is an interesting topic (to underline this: I am sitting here on vacation for a hadful of days using my mobile to write this mail ;-) ), though, due to some other OS projects I am really getti

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-27 Thread Torsten Curdt
On 25.08.2007, at 15:21, Chr. Grobmeier wrote: In fact, i compared the TrueZip implementation to Compress yesterday. We have quite less features and on some points in the code we depend on java.util.zip packages. Why is using java.uil.zip bad? In some discussion in here people said that t

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-27 Thread Torsten Curdt
On 25.08.2007, at 17:26, Filip Defoort wrote: Mario Ivankovits wrote: Hi! It is an interesting topic (to underline this: I am sitting here on vacation for a hadful of days using my mobile to write this mail ;-) ), though, due to some other OS projects I am really getting out of time. An

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Filip Defoort
Mario Ivankovits wrote: Hi! It is an interesting topic (to underline this: I am sitting here on vacation for a hadful of days using my mobile to write this mail ;-) ), though, due to some other OS projects I am really getting out of time. Anyway, the j.i.file way of truezip is the case why I d

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Mario Ivankovits
actively - i dont like this api. So, to reach the point having compress dealing with this stuff AND a working vfs provider will wake me up again ;-) Mario -Original Message- From: Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, Aug 25, 2007 3:01 pm Subject: Re: [VFS] Writing to Ja

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
> > In fact, i compared the TrueZip implementation to Compress yesterday. > > We have quite less features and on some points in the code we depend > > on java.util.zip packages. > > Why is using java.uil.zip bad? In some discussion in here people said that they wanted implementation which is indep

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Torsten Curdt
...but it would be still a bit of work. When I was trying to add a new archiver implementation I was frustrated with some of the details of the current API I remember. Can you be more concrete? Maybe i can add some improvements here. Uff ...would love to help but this has already been a whil

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
> I am not sure I totally agree here. Last time I looked it was pretty > much a one-man show from the original author. I wanted to provide a > patch for some feature. It did not fit into his vision of truezip. So > I left. (Did I hear someone say fork?) IMO extending java.io.File is > also a very q

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Torsten Curdt
On 25.08.2007, at 14:31, Chr. Grobmeier wrote: ah very well- i checked out truezip yesterday and found it quite good. Its time to ask again if compress should go to dormancy when such a good component is available with ASF license. I am not sure I totally agree here. Last time I looked it was

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
> That's not true :) hehe ok sorry then :-) >...but it would be still a bit of work. When I was > trying to add a new archiver implementation I was frustrated with > some of the details of the current API I remember. Can you be more concrete? Maybe i can add some improvements here. In fact, i c

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Torsten Curdt
Problem is that not too much people are interested in seeing compress out of the sandbox. That's not true :) ...but it would be still a bit of work. When I was trying to add a new archiver implementation I was frustrated with some of the details of the current API cheers -- Torsten --

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
ah very well- i checked out truezip yesterday and found it quite good. Its time to ask again if compress should go to dormancy when such a good component is available with ASF license. Regards, Chris On 8/25/07, Asankha C. Perera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chris > > It may be more effective

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Asankha C. Perera
Hi Chris It may be more effective with that open TrueZip issue. Yes, I have checked with Christian Schlichtherle on getting TrueZip into Maven repos already and he is supportive of the effort. Also I have made good progress on http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-106 patch by Filip Defo

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-25 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
hi asankha, the point is, that VFS depends on Compress which is a Sandbox component. Cause of this Mario copied the compress code into VFS. It was planned that whenever compress leaves the sandbox VFS will have an dependency on it. Will wrote code for compress like i did. When it is submitted we h

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-24 Thread Asankha C. Perera
Hi Will I haven't yet got a chance to look at this in detail.. but your patch seems to be only for compress? and not for the VFS provider? If so its not clear to me how can one use it for VFS thanks asankha Will Pugh wrote: I wrote some zip writing code for compress that can modify the actua

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-24 Thread Will Pugh
I wrote some zip writing code for compress that can modify the actual zip files. I submitted it and then fell off the face of the earth. In July, I came back an fixed up some of the concerns, but I think the pause ended up losing some of the interest in this. http://issues.apache.org/jira/br

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-24 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
Hi, > I would be interested to see write support for files such as Jar, Tar > and Zip etc in VFS. If you already have some code that works, thats great ok, i didn't finish all the code necessary, but i remember there are only smaller chunks left to write. > I am a Jakarta HttpCore committer as w

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-24 Thread Asankha C. Perera
Hi Chris I would be interested to see write support for files such as Jar, Tar and Zip etc in VFS. If you already have some code that works, thats great Since i am not a comitter i found it very difficult to contribute and my interest dissappeard too. I am a Jakarta HttpCore committer as wel

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-23 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
Hi Asankha, there was efford before months to improve the underlying component, commons compress. Compress was one of the showstoppers for VFS. After it was clear that compress needs more time than VFS to be released, the VFS team copied the compress classes into VFS and released that component. S

[VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-23 Thread Asankha C. Perera
I am a committer of the Apache Synapse project and we are using VFS to build a file transport through Apache Axis2. However, it seems like we cannot 'write' to or create new Jar, Zip files through VFS.. is this a current limitation? If so, is anyone currently working on this to provide write s