With 2.0 tar is supported out of the box, with 2.1 it is not. It depends
on commons-compress which is listed as an optional dependency.
Is this intentional? If so the documentation
(http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-vfs/download.html) needs to be
updated prior to release.
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Schalk
The default manager configuration in providers.xml registers the Tar
and Bzip2FileProvider conditionally based on commons compress classes.
For GzipFileProvider it uses unconditionally the java.util.zip package.
provider class-name=org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.tar.TarFileProvider
