Re: Proposal: jar option to disable compression for selected file extensions

2024-12-17 Thread Lance Andersen
Hi Eirik, I think this proposal has merit. Outside of info-zip, are you aware of any other zip tool that does something similar? 7zip, WinZip and compress do not appear to offer similar functionality. On Dec 16, 2024, at 6:38 AM, Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote: Hi, I would like to socialize the idea

Re: Proposal: jar option to disable compression for selected file extensions

2024-12-16 Thread Alan Bateman
On 16/12/2024 11:38, Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote: Hi, I would like to socialize the idea of adding a new option to the jar tool to disable ZIP compression for selected file extensions. The jar tool currently supports disabling ZIP compression altogether for an archive using the -0 --no-compress opt

Re: Proposal: jar option to disable compression for selected file extensions

2024-12-16 Thread Archie Cobbs
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 5:39 AM Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote: > I propose that we add a new option, tentatively named "--no-compress-ext", > which would take a colon-separated list of file extensions to disable ZIP > compression for: > > jar --create --file archive.jar --no-compress-ext=.jpg:.png:.gz -C

Proposal: jar option to disable compression for selected file extensions

2024-12-16 Thread Eirik Bjørsnøs
Hi, I would like to socialize the idea of adding a new option to the jar tool to disable ZIP compression for selected file extensions. The jar tool currently supports disabling ZIP compression altogether for an archive using the -0 --no-compress options. However, different file types have differ