On 2010-10-27, Max Birkoff wrote: > I must admit to being a little confused by your suggestion. On one > hand you seem to say "go to another project" and on the other hand, > ant's code base contains the tar code that I have been using and would > like to improve.
8-) This is what I wanted to say: If you are using Ant's codebase to get access to the tar package, then I recommend you use Commons Compress instead (and improve that). The tar package in Commons Compress started as a copy of Ant's code but already has been improved with things Ant itself doesn't need. > Do you plan to remove org.apache.tools.tar from your code base? No. Since I'm a committer on Commons Compress as well as Ant I usually merge bugfixes from one to the other, but I don't invest time into merging enhancements that wouldn't be used by the tar/untar tasks in Ant. And then there is the Compress Antlib which also contains tar/untar classes based on Commons Compress. Personally I prefer working on the Compress Antlib over adding features to the core tasks because it is easier - that doesn't stop other Ant committers from doing it in a different way. > Is supporting symlinks in a tar file just unimportant to ant? So far it hasn't been important enough to any user of Ant in way that would have led to a patch. That's all I know. Stefan PS: yes, I've seen you've already approached Commons Compress and will look into the JIRA issue, I just can't promise a timeframe for it right now. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
