On 19.07.2013, at 06:27, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2013-07-18, Rene Groeschke wrote: > >> Just to understand this completely. Zip64Mode.Never was the default in >> earlier ant versions and this has changed with ant 1.9.0? > > Ant didn't support ZIP64 extensions at all prior to 1.9.0, so yes, in a > way "Never" was the default. In 1.9.0 "AsNeeded" was used with no way > for the user to control it. > > ZIP64 extensions are needed to support large archives or big individual > entries (bigger than 4GB). > > The ZIP format knows something called "extension fields" and ZIP64 is > one such field. ZIP readers are supposed to ignore fields they don't > know to handle but Java5's java.util.zip package will rather fail in > that case. One of the many cases where java.util.zip is broken. > > Stefan >
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation Stefan. Cheers, René > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
