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[compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release
Hi all
we've already had users asking for a new release - in particular because
of 7z support.
>From the top of my head there are two things I'd like to address before
the release and one that would be nice but I know I won't find time to
look into.
Should go into the release:
* support for writing compressed 7z archives. In particular I'd love to
have SevenZOutputFile default to LZMA2 compression with the release.
* look into and potentially fix date and permission handling issues in
arj.
I've created a test arj archive on Linux and Compress doesn't read the
date properly. It is quite possible the Unix versions of arj create
different date fields and I want to look into the Open Source C arj
implementation to figure out what's up - same for permissions, which
I've only added because I saw the Linux version supported them.
Nice to have:
* decompression support in arj. I'm afraid this takes quite a bit of
effort.
If you have anything to add, please do. Also, if you want to look into
the new APIs for LZMA, arj or 7z before the release when we might change
it without fear of breaking anything, please do so soon. Real world
tests of the new code against existing files would be great as well.
The amount of time I have at hand (as well as my enthusiasm, TBH) comes
in unpredictable bursts, so I can't give a timeframe for the release.
Helpings hands are more than welcome :-)
Stefan
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Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On 2013-10-06, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> Should go into the release:
> * support for writing compressed 7z archives. In particular I'd love to
> have SevenZOutputFile default to LZMA2 compression with the release.
> * look into and potentially fix date and permission handling issues in
> arj.
Done.
I've update the compress website, now is your last chance for feedback
before I start cutting a release candidate - likely during the weekend.
Stefan
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Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release
Posted by James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>.
My point was that we need to try to get out of the mindset that we
have to be perfect before we do a release. Of course, we should fix
any glaring issues, but we need to get better about pushing releases
out more often into our users' hands. I'm not pointing at [compress]
here. Just responding to your response to Gary about "release early,
release often."
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 2013-10-06, James Carman wrote:
>
>> Version numbers are cheap.
>
> Again, no argument.
>
> I wonder where you or Gregory got the idea it could be different.
>
> All I said was "here is my list of things I intend to do" - which
> contained two items and one of them has been done five hours later - and
> asked for a second/third pair of eyes before we have to carry around
> stuff that will be baggage in future releases.
>
> 1.5 has been released in May it's not exactly as if we had been delaying
> a new relase ...
>
> I'm puzzled
>
> Stefan
>
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Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On 2013-10-06, James Carman wrote:
> Version numbers are cheap.
Again, no argument.
I wonder where you or Gregory got the idea it could be different.
All I said was "here is my list of things I intend to do" - which
contained two items and one of them has been done five hours later - and
asked for a second/third pair of eyes before we have to carry around
stuff that will be baggage in future releases.
1.5 has been released in May it's not exactly as if we had been delaying
a new relase ...
I'm puzzled
Stefan
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Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release
Posted by James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>.
Version numbers are cheap. We don't have to be *perfect* before every release.
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 2013-10-06, Gary Gregory wrote:
>
>> In general I like the release early, release often model.
>
> I don't think we differ here. But before we cut a release we should be
> happy with the APIas we'll be forced to live with that for some time.
>
> Stefan
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Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On 2013-10-06, Gary Gregory wrote:
> In general I like the release early, release often model.
I don't think we differ here. But before we cut a release we should be
happy with the APIas we'll be forced to live with that for some time.
Stefan
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Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release
Posted by Gary Gregory <ga...@gmail.com>.
In general I like the release early, release often model. WRT helping
I'm afraid that ATM I won't be able to do more than help with checking
an RC.
Gary
On Oct 6, 2013, at 10:27, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> we've already had users asking for a new release - in particular because
> of 7z support.
>
> From the top of my head there are two things I'd like to address before
> the release and one that would be nice but I know I won't find time to
> look into.
>
> Should go into the release:
>
> * support for writing compressed 7z archives. In particular I'd love to
> have SevenZOutputFile default to LZMA2 compression with the release.
>
> * look into and potentially fix date and permission handling issues in
> arj.
>
> I've created a test arj archive on Linux and Compress doesn't read the
> date properly. It is quite possible the Unix versions of arj create
> different date fields and I want to look into the Open Source C arj
> implementation to figure out what's up - same for permissions, which
> I've only added because I saw the Linux version supported them.
>
> Nice to have:
>
> * decompression support in arj. I'm afraid this takes quite a bit of
> effort.
>
> If you have anything to add, please do. Also, if you want to look into
> the new APIs for LZMA, arj or 7z before the release when we might change
> it without fear of breaking anything, please do so soon. Real world
> tests of the new code against existing files would be great as well.
>
> The amount of time I have at hand (as well as my enthusiasm, TBH) comes
> in unpredictable bursts, so I can't give a timeframe for the release.
> Helpings hands are more than welcome :-)
>
> Stefan
>
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Re: [compress] Thoughts on a 1.6 Release
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On 2013-10-06, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> * look into and potentially fix date and permission handling issues in
> arj.
done - inside the Ant compress antlib I now have archives created on
Windows and Linux and I get the correct date/time on both of them - one
has to consider the OS flag describing the OS the archive has been
created on for some of the fields.
Stefan
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