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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:08:30 +0530
From: "Asankha C. Perera" <asankha@wso2.com>
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Subject: Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..
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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 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/browse/SANDBOX-183
>
>
>    --Will
>
> Chr. Grobmeier wrote:
>> 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 well, and also the lead developer
>>> of Apache Synapse. So maybe I could try to be of help to get your code
>>> into the SVN with the help of a VFS committer?
>>>     
>>
>> I think this would work; i contributed a few lines code before with
>> the help of the commons people in here. I think Mario (VFS) may also
>> be interested in this.
>>
>>  
>>> Cant you rely on java.util.zip and java.util.jar packages instead of
>>> compress?
>>>     
>>
>> Yes, we could, but as far as i understood people didn't want to use
>> this sun-specific packages and implemented these classes themself
>> under Apache License. However, its possible to extend compress with
>> own packages, so one can rely on those you mentioned with writing some
>> kind of plugin.
>>
>> Best,
>> Chris
>>
>>  
>>> thanks
>>> asankha
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