[GitHub] [commons-compress] Glavo commented on pull request #357: Removed dependency on the java.desktop module

["Glavo (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>]

Glavo commented on PR #357:
URL: https://github.com/apache/commons-compress/pull/357#issuecomment-1474967665

   > We could break up this component into a multi maven module maven project, one per compression/archive type.
   
   @garydgregory I'm very interested in the proposal of Commons Compress 2. There are some historical legacies in Commons Compress, and we can make it more modern through Commons Compress 2.
   
   I created a fork for Commons Compress: https://github.com/Glavo/kala-compress
   
   In this fork, I made some modifications to make it more modern (there is a more detailed description in the README of this fork):
   
   * Modular support, splitting all compressors and archives into separate JPMS modules;
   * Better NIO2 support, migrating all existing `java.io.File` based APIs to `java.nio.file.Path` to fully support non default file systems;
   * Use `java.nio.charset.Charset` everywhere instead of using strings to represent encoding. `ZipEncoding` and `CharsetNames` have also been deleted;
   * UTF-8 is used as the default encoding in most places.
   
   There are also some minor changes that can be viewed in README for more details.
   
   In addition, I think there are some things worth considering:
   
   * I think the naming of `XxxFile` (such as `ZipFile`) is not appropriate enough. I changed them all to `XxxReader` in fork because I think `XxxFile` should have more functions, such as adding or deleting entries;
   * Provide `FileSystem` implementation for each archive format.
   
   I will continue to experiment on this fork, which may help with the future of Commons Compress 2.


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