On 1/3/06, Mario Ivankovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > What to do with [compress]? > > There is no development on the compress package, but VFS depends on it. > As you know, this is a show stopper for VFS to release.
Yup. > The question now is if we should promote compress to proper and cut a > release or if I should import the required classes into the VFS codebase. > The latter might mean that compress will get dormant at all. How much of compress does VFS use? ie) you could look to release a compress that just includes the bzip2 bit if that's all you use etc. Probably drive somebody to fix the other parts for a later release. > Personally I would like to keep compress as I hope sometimes in the > future we well see new compression algos too. > Might It be an option to move compress to [codec]? With some good will > ;-) we can argue that it fits not that bad. Nah, it's a good component in concept, just needs work. Not as if there's a huge codec team jumping up and down looking for new stuff to do. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
