[ANNOUNCE][VFS] commons-vfs 1.0 RC4 available

[Mario Ivankovits <ma...@ops.co.at>]

Hi!

The commons vfs community is happy to announce the availability of 
commons-vfs 1.0 RC4.

Please find the RC at
http://people.apache.org/~imario/vfs

The site can be reviewed at
http://people.apache.org/~imario/vfs-1.0-RC4/site


Notice:
After some discussion about uri filename resolving style I decided to 
add experimental code to the vfs codebase before
the 1.0 release. This was needed as we had to ensure no drastic api 
changes are required to support this stuff.
The experimental code needs to be activated by: VFS.setUriStyle(true);

After this change I thought its best to have a new RC - so here it is, 
though I dont expect any side effect.


Please refer to the RELEASE_NOTES.txt for full list of changes.



FYI: What is uri-style filename resolving?
When using uri-style filename resolving the resolving stuff is aware of 
the difference between files and directories.
If you resolve a relative filename against a "file" it will be resolved 
using the "file-directory" as base.
If you resolve a relative filename against a "directory" it will be 
resolved using this directory as base.

Examples:

*) Today
Base: file:///home/im/file.txt
Relative Name: file2.txt
Result: file:///home/im/file.txt/file2.txt

*) URI
Base: file:///home/im/file.txt
Relative Name: file2.txt
Result: file:///home/im/file2.txt

*) Today
Base: file:///home/im
Relative Name: file2.txt
Result: file:///home/im/file2.txt

*) URI
Base: file:///home/im/
Relative Name: file2.txt
Result: file:///home/im/file2.txt


Notice the trailing slash to mark the last filename part as directory. 
There are still known limitations - they will be addressed later.

---
Mario


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