RE: Compress vs. VFS

2008-07-07 Thread Oberhuber, Martin
ier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 2:18 PM > To: Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: Compress vs. VFS > > Hi Martin, > we would like to have an own apache component, > cause several people here do not like the api. > As stated in the board rep

Re: Compress vs. VFS

2008-07-07 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hi Martin, we would like to have an own apache component, cause several people here do not like the api. As stated in the board report of september 07, they is less community behind truezip, which is another -. However, if interested, check these discussions here: http://markmail.org/search/?q=True

RE: Compress vs. VFS

2008-07-07 Thread Oberhuber, Martin
Hello Samuel, Mario and others, if just interested in accessing ZIP files, have you had a look at TrueZip: https://truezip.dev.java.net/ It might make sense to provide a TrueZip wrapper for Commons VFS eventually. How do the Commons Compress folk compare to TrueZip? Cheers, -- Martin Oberhube

Re: Compress vs. VFS

2008-07-06 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hi Samuel, > > * I see that the > Archive< > http://commons.apache.org/sandbox/compress/apidocs/org/apache/commons/compress/Archive.html > > > interface and the > ArchiverFactory< > http://commons.apache.org/sandbox/compress/apidocs/org/apache/commons/compress/ArchiverFactory.html > > > deal a lot

Re: Compress vs. VFS

2008-07-06 Thread Samuel Le Berrigaud
Hi Mario, thanks for the reply. I now have a better understanding of the relationship between those 2. And I believe it does make sense :-) A couple of questions regarding the compress APIs though. Please, let me know if you guys would rather I create Jira issues for those. * I see that the Arch

Re: Compress vs. VFS

2008-07-05 Thread Mario Ivankovits
Hi! What do you guys see being the big difference between the 2 approaches and is that a good enough reason to keep both libraries? VFS contains an old snapshot of compress just to being able to cut a release. Actually, compress is slowly evolving, once this has been finished we will remo