Java has a service leader mechanism for that. No sense in duplicating it. If that means updating to Java 8, then so be it.
Gary On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 07:58 Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > Le 04/01/2020 à 12:19, Stefan Bodewig a écrit : > > > This won't work as CompressorStreamFactory depends on the package. > > Maybe some reflection could address that? > > > > https://github.com/pack200/pack200 looks pretty public to me :-) > > I've just pushed a raw extraction of the OpenJDK code with its history. > I'll have to redo it to include all the C files required to compile the > native library. > > > > I'd say it is fair to call pack200 support an optional feature of > > Commons Compress https://apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional > > Good point, I wasn't aware of this rule. > > Alternatively I'm considering adding an independent Apache-2.0 licensed > interface, and having the GPLed code provide an implementation, maybe > using a META-INF service mechanism. > > Emmanuel Bourg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
