On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Tobias Hertkorn wrote: > That's great. I would like to take a look at the code. But my > researchs (again after this email) did not produce any hints to its > existence. > If you are willing to release it under the GNU General Public License > (GPL), please send me a copy of your source and I would be more than > willing to shape it into a project and publish it on my webpage. (Of > course honoring your efforts.)
It was never released. The deb writing code(didn't test the reading part), is using another unreleased project of mine: ALTAR(Abstract Library To ARchives). It's a unified api(current version only in java, with plans for native versions in other languages) to ar(gnu, bsd support in the future), cpio(binary and compat), and tar(standard, posix, gnu). I have plans to do a native zip(not using java.util.Zip(it sucks)), and rpm based on cpio. The above all has unit tests as well, and nice javadoc. But no user-level/developer docs. Maybe you would be interested in helping to write that? Plus, all the above uses a custom autoconf build system, that looks like automake: erector-set. Support for projects with source in multiple languages: c, c++, java, python, perl. In gcj mode, java is treated like c++. I can use jikes to create Makefile dependencies for java(extremly helpful). Again, no docs at all for erector-set.
