On 2010-10-08, Ximin Luo wrote: > We're currently using the bzip2/tar libraries from org.apache.tools in our > project, but I've just come across the org.apache.commons.compress library, > which seems to contain pretty much the same code.
commons-compress also contains code for CPIO and AR. > Which version is newer, or more actively maintained? I am a committer to both projects and merge bug fixes and features that would be useful to Ant from commons-compress. So for zip, bzip2 and tar they are more or less the same, but commons-compress is definitively more active and has shorter release cycles. In at least one case I've told a person filing a bug report against Ant's classes to use commons-compress instead. The classes that ship as part of Ant have never been designed for any usecase other than what Ant needed. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
