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Kristian Rosenvold commented on COMPRESS-290:
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Come to think of it, commons-compress could probably provide a lot of these
messages directly in the error since the knowledge about the capabilities of
the format belong inside commons-compress. I'll submit a patch for this if you
find this ok, and I'll try to find out if we need to do anything on the outside
or just keep the RuntimeException
> TarArchiveOutputStream#failForBigNumber could be more helpful
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> Key: COMPRESS-290
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-290
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Kristian Rosenvold
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> We have now ported all of maven to use commons compress. When a user is
> running tar compression, we may sometimes fail because the selected tar
> format does not support big numbers.
> In this context we'd like to help our users by informing them that there may
> be other tar formats than can be more suitable. I would request that this
> method throw some specialized subclass of RuntimeException that we can catch
> to identify this particular error condition, so we can talk to our users
> about their options :)
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