Personally I think that ant should move to java 1.5 for ant 1.9. Peter
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > ZIP64 is the nickname for the changes to the ZIP archive format that are > necessary to support files > 4GB (both individual entries and complete > archives) or archives with more than 64k entries. Ant's ZIP package > does not support this and neither does java.util.zip prior to Java7[1]. > > Over in Commons land I've started to implement ZIP64 support in Commons > Compress. Once the code is released the Compress Antlib will > transparently support ZIP64 without any changes required there. All > you'd need to do is upgrading Commons Compress. > > In order to implement it, Commons Compress must switch to Java5 as the > few parts of java.util.zip that are used in CC (Inflater/Deflater) have > an issuficient API for big entries (getTotalIn returns an int which is > too small, getBytesRead which returns a long has been added in Java5). > > Since Ant is stuck with Java 1.4 for now I do not plan to backport the > changes from Commons Compress over to Ant's ZIP package. The reflection > needed will be too much and I've started to embrace generics and other > Java5 features in the modified code base, so porting is just too > painful. > > Users that need ZIP64 can be pointed to the Compress Antlib IMHO. > > Stefan > > [1] Java7 claims to support it but from what I've seen the OpenJDK > implementation is likely wrong. I'll dig into OpenJDK's code at one > point in time and open a bug report if my suspicion remains true. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
