Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

This issue is back from my side. I am planing to cook up plexus-archiver to use native tar. Now is there a way to somehow swap/overide the built-in java tar unpack with mine? Would twisting order to classpath possible? Thanks -Dan On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Kristian Rosenvold

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

Kristian, where is the branches that have common-compress for archiving? Thanks -D On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Kristian Rosenvold kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com wrote: I know I have a couple of branches that at least convert all the plexus-archiver zip stuff to use commons-compress,

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

Hi Kristian, I know I have a couple of branches that at least convert all the plexus-archiver zip stuff to use commons-compress, which is reasonably simple to plug into plexus-archiver. I have been a bit reluctant to push these changes since I've been mildly concerned about fallout. I think it

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

I meant to cook up a plexus-archiver 'component' using native tar using the same 'hint' On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Dan Tran dant...@gmail.com wrote: This issue is back from my side. I am planing to cook up plexus-archiver to use native tar. Now is there a way to somehow swap/overide

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

I think that generally code reuse is a good idea. ;-) In this case the code even stays within the Apache family, so if anyone cares about my humble opinion, I think it makes sense. As for testing, I think Jason lately talked about Maven's integration test bed. Maybe it makes sense to add an

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

I filed an Jira at https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEP-447 . Let's see how much interests it can gather -D On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Alexander Kriegisch alexan...@kriegisch.name wrote: I disagree, even though I could live with it. How about putting the effort in improving the Java

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

I am interested, may be it should be 3.0-alpha? -D On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Kristian Rosenvold kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com wrote: I know I have a couple of branches that at least convert all the plexus-archiver zip stuff to use commons-compress, which is reasonably simple to plug

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 04:15:15PM -0700, Dan Tran wrote: BTW, I never have good luck with plexus-archiver, and always ended up to implement my own 'unpack' using native tar to speed up the build and also reserve the softlinks in the archive. If plexus-archiver needs work, maybe they would

Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

I am think of enhancing maven-dependency-plugin by adding option to unpack 'tar' like artifact using native tar since it is faster and reserve soft links (?) Thoughts? would it be a maintaining night mare?? Thanks -Dan

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

Windows does not have tar by default. You need to install Git (incl. Git Bash), Cygwin, GnuWin32 or similar. I would not expect any user to have tar installed at all or if so then in any predictable location or even reachable via PATH. -- Alexander Kriegisch Am 03.06.2014 um 00:36 schrieb

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

correct, I would expect user to install tar.exe or cygwin with tar on windows and activate the option. By default, it still uses plexus-archiver to unpack -D On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Alexander Kriegisch alexan...@kriegisch.name wrote: Windows does not have tar by default. You need

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

Oh, I see, multiple options. Okay, then yes - maintenance nightmare. I think we should not easily give up Java's idea of platform independence and Maven's whole point: creating standardised, repeatable builds. If your idea is a reaction on your latest tar.gz problems, maybe we can find another

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

Hi Alex, I will find a good sample file for you. Thanks -D On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Alexander Kriegisch alexan...@kriegisch.name wrote: Oh, I see, multiple options. Okay, then yes - maintenance nightmare. I think we should not easily give up Java's idea of platform independence and

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

BTW, I never have good luck with plexus-archiver, and always ended up to implement my own 'unpack' using native tar to speed up the build and also reserve the softlinks in the archive. So am asking the user list to see if there any interests in this feature to give enough incentive to implement

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

I have had many problems with Java-based TAR solutions. I often use this where I can: https://github.com/airlift/airship/blob/master/airship-shared/src/main/java/io/airlift/airship/shared/FileUtils.java On Jun 2, 2014, at 7:15 PM, Dan Tran dant...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, I never have good

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

Looks like it is worth a try to get maven-dependency-plugin having an option to use native tar during unpack. Thanks Jason -Dan On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Jason van Zyl ja...@takari.io wrote: I have had many problems with Java-based TAR solutions. I often use this where I can:

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

I disagree, even though I could live with it. How about putting the effort in improving the Java implementation if something is wrong with symlink extraction? And BTW, your archives in this case (see other thread) just had the wrong extension because you packed them without the z option, which

Re: Use native tar to unpack? good/bad idea?

I know I have a couple of branches that at least convert all the plexus-archiver zip stuff to use commons-compress, which is reasonably simple to plug into plexus-archiver. I have been a bit reluctant to push these changes since I've been mildly concerned about fallout. I think it should be fairly