On 2010-10-27, Max Birkoff wrote: > I would like to add support for symlinks to: > org.apache.tools.tar.TarEntry and friends.
I'd recommend you'd put that effort into the tar classes in Apache Commons Compress <http://commons.apache.org/compress/> instead. The tar and zip classes of Ant are really only a subset of the compress classes and I'd expect Ant's "copy" of the classes will only get the parts merged that are useful to the existing Ant tasks. Personally I would prefer enhancing the compress Antlib <http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/compress/index.html> rather than the core tasks as well - the core tasks carry to much baggage of backwards compatibility ti keep IMHO. > I have examined the archives at: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.ant.devel/ > and cannot see the matter discussed there. There is at least one bugzilla issue raised for it. > Before sending patches, I would like to determine if there is a reason > that this has not been supported in the TarEntry class; Those who have been working on the code didn't need symlink support and those who needed it never provided patches 8-) > it appears that the proper constants are present in TarConstants and I > can get at the linkflag through the writeEntryHeader method. It is true that it doesn't seem to be too difficult. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
