On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:26, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> XZ for Java has landed in Maven Central[1] (thanks, Lasse!) and together
> with COMPRESS-156 it would be pretty easy to add support for XZ
> compression.
>
> The patch in COMPRESS-156 comes without tests or docs but either are
> very easy to create as clones of the GZip counterparts.
>
> Do we want to add XZ support now or wait until after 1.3 has been
> released?

I would wait until after. Release early, release often.

Gary

>
> In either case I'd intend to call for a vote on a first RC for Compress
> 1.3 no later than next week.
>
> Do we want to release a shaded jar that pulls in XZ for Java in addition
> to our normal artifact?
>
> I can easily envision we'll start to make use of more of XZ for Java
> later (LZMA as raw compression format, even if Lasse doesn't like it,
> and LZMA compression in ZIPs for example).
>
> Stefan
>
> [1] http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/tukaani/xz/1.0/
>
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