Re: General Packaging mechanism

2007-02-21 Thread Julian Reschke
Tobias Bocanegra schrieb: hi all, 2 weeks ago we promised to contribute our package mechanism for jcr content to the jackrabbit project [JCR-733]. after a lengthy (internal) discussion we decided to completely re-develop a new content archiver that is based on a filesystem-like abstraction of

Re: General Packaging mechanism

2007-02-21 Thread Tobias Bocanegra
well, it seems that they use now .sar as new extension: In the past SAP developed the tool and named it CAR. The extensions of all compressed files were named .CAR as well. In SAP release 4.6C SAP decided to enhance the functionality of the CAR utility a bit. Therefore, the internal structure of

Re: General Packaging mechanism

2007-02-21 Thread Julian Reschke
Tobias Bocanegra schrieb: well, it seems that they use now .sar as new extension: In the past SAP developed the tool and named it CAR. The extensions of all compressed files were named .CAR as well. In SAP release 4.6C SAP decided to enhance the functionality of the CAR utility a bit.

Re: General Packaging mechanism

2007-02-21 Thread Julian Reschke
Tobias Bocanegra schrieb: Unrelated to that...: - use a standard format for the archive (i.e. zip/jar) If you use ZIP/JAR as format, how are you going to handle non-ASCII characters in filenames in a portable way? all non-valid filesystem characters are escaped using url-escaping %xx or

Re: General Packaging mechanism

2007-02-21 Thread Nicolas
Hi, This link might help I think: http://www.peterbuettner.de/develop/javasnippets/zipOnlyAscii/index.html The important excerpt: After investigation of the native code i found, that they interpret the names in the zip as utf-8 encoded. The bytes are transformed into a String nevertheless if