On Aug 8, 2011, at 23:26, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > 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? >
Read only is ok to me. It would allow for conversion. Gary > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
