Thanks Bruno. This helps a lot. :) cheers, Lee
On 11 16 2020, at 1:45 , Bruno P. Kinoshita <ki...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Lee, > I don't know much about Compress' API, only as a user of the API in some > projects. > I had a cursory look, read comments and JIRA and left comments on GitHub PR. > No blockers for me. Hope it helps. > Thanks for bringing it to the mailing list, and for the review. > CheersBruno > > On Monday, 16 November 2020, 3:51:48 pm NZDT, Peter Lee <peter...@apache.org> > wrote: > Hi all, > Robin has pushed a PR in github in July that implemented the random access of > tar : > https://github.com/apache/commons-compress/pull/113 > It's achieved by reading the tar once and have the start position of each tar > entry stored. Tar is not designed to be random accessed so this may be a time > consuming way. > IMO this is not a must feature, but it's a good idea that may be useful when > we only want some specific entries in giant tars. This is a big change in tar > so I want to hear your voices. WDYT? > cheers, > Lee >
