Hi, in JIRA Bear Giles has provided an ArchiveInputStream implementation for the Unix dump format. AFAIU writing an output stream would be quite difficult in particular since the format requires information not available to Java and the road to JNI/JNA doesn't look like one I'd like to take right now.
But read-only support could still be useful for some users. The RAR format is in the same boat for a different reason. The format itself is not fully documented but a Java library exists to read RAR archives and its license - which explicitly prohibits using the code base to reverse-engineer write support - is listed as Category B <http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b> [1] So what is the feeling in general, are read-only formats OK or do we want to only support formats that we can write as well? Stefan [1] The link to the license is dead and some searching around indicates Sourceforge has kicked out the project because of its license. The new home seems to be (according to Ohloh) <https://github.com/edmund-wagner/junrar> and a different fork by Jukka Zitting - for use inside Apache Tika - exists as well at github. So far I have no idea how feasible an InputStream implementation based on the codebase would be. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
