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Posted to user@commons.apache.org by David Rosenstrauch <da...@darose.net> on 2009/04/24 23:37:40 UTC
Status of Commons Compress
I need to add tar file reading capability into an app I'm writing, and
so I'm wondering what the current status of Commons Compress is. The
project's page is rather sparse. Nevertheless, I did glean that it has
no releases yet. So I was wondering:
1) Anyone have an idea if there's a release expected anytime soon?
2) If not, what quality level is the SVN code? Obviously usually
pre-release implies code of questionable reliability. But as the code
in Compress originally comes from Avalon -> Ant -> an older open source
project, perhaps the code is of sufficient age and maturity that it'd be
pretty reliable even in its pre-release format. So, in other words, is
the SVN code stable enough to use on a production system?
3) If it's not stable enough, what ancestor code would one recommend
that I use instead? Ant?
Thanks,
DR
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Re: Status of Commons Compress
Posted by David Rosenstrauch <da...@darose.net>.
Christian Grobmeier wrote:
> However, Compress hasn't been used much in production, so Ants code is
> more tested.
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
Thanks much for the responses, guys.
As this needs to go into a pretty critical production system, it sounds
like it's probably best to stick with Ant for now.
Thanks again,
DR
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Re: Status of Commons Compress
Posted by Christian Grobmeier <gr...@gmail.com>.
Hi
> 1) Anyone have an idea if there's a release expected anytime soon?
we currently have no open issues which speaks against an version 1.0
soon. We need to do some final checks. See this:
http://wiki.apache.org/commons/CompressRoadmap
> 2) If not, what quality level is the SVN code? Obviously usually
> pre-release implies code of questionable reliability. But as the code in
> Compress originally comes from Avalon -> Ant -> an older open source
> project, perhaps the code is of sufficient age and maturity that it'd be
> pretty reliable even in its pre-release format. So, in other words, is the
> SVN code stable enough to use on a production system?
I think its good! :-)
We have worked on it lots in the last time and esspecially Zip has
improved very much.
> 3) If it's not stable enough, what ancestor code would one recommend that I
> use instead? Ant?
Some of the code still is an duplication of Ants code. But Ant is
backwards compatible, we don't need to go this way, and that means our
code looks more clean (not an offense!). If you take Ants code you
have the benefit that it is released, but I think you shouldn't see
much difference to the code which Compress provides.
However, Compress hasn't been used much in production, so Ants code is
more tested.
Cheers,
Christian
>
> Thanks,
>
> DR
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Re: Status of Commons Compress
Posted by Niall Pemberton <ni...@gmail.com>.
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:37 PM, David Rosenstrauch <da...@darose.net> wrote:
> I need to add tar file reading capability into an app I'm writing, and so
> I'm wondering what the current status of Commons Compress is. The project's
> page is rather sparse. Nevertheless, I did glean that it has no releases
> yet. So I was wondering:
>
> 1) Anyone have an idea if there's a release expected anytime soon?
Compress until recently was in the "Sandbox" (no release allowed) and
has only been promoted to Commons "proper" recently:
http://commons.markmail.org/message/am37ls5bmhvapi3x
Some threads on the dev list:
http://commons.markmail.org/message/ackwv62ffnlmumz4
http://commons.markmail.org/message/gru4cxnwwvziyl6i
http://commons.markmail.org/message/uw2puxbwebyg5get
Niall
> 2) If not, what quality level is the SVN code? Obviously usually
> pre-release implies code of questionable reliability. But as the code in
> Compress originally comes from Avalon -> Ant -> an older open source
> project, perhaps the code is of sufficient age and maturity that it'd be
> pretty reliable even in its pre-release format. So, in other words, is the
> SVN code stable enough to use on a production system?
>
> 3) If it's not stable enough, what ancestor code would one recommend that I
> use instead? Ant?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DR
>
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