From 8b2485e6bff45868d7ee8e7744bb44da47d8224b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bodewig
The current code base is based on the 1.0 release of Commons + Compress but it is expected that this Antlib follows Commons + Compress' development and will add new compression or + archiving formats as they are provided by the underlying + library.
+The gzip and bzip2 tasks and resources are similar to the + corresponding tasks and types in Ant's core and mainly just + use a different code base for the implementation of the + formats.
+The same is mostly true for the zip and tar resources as well + as the unzip/tar task with the major difference being that + unzip and zipfileset can work with non-File resources.
+The zip and tar tasks are completely new implementations and + offer a superset of the functionality of the core tasks.
+Tasks and resources for the ar and cpio formats mirror those + available for tar and zip.
+All tasks and types can be mixed with the core tasks and + types; it is possible to use the core zip task to create an + archive based on an cpiofileset for example.
diff --git a/xdocs/antlibs/compress/index.xml b/xdocs/antlibs/compress/index.xml index a2c4e1aeb..649bece0e 100644 --- a/xdocs/antlibs/compress/index.xml +++ b/xdocs/antlibs/compress/index.xml @@ -30,6 +30,31 @@ Commons Compress. Using Apache Commons Compress 1.0 this Antlib supports gzip and bzip2 compression and ar, cpio, tar and zip archives. + +The current code base is based on the 1.0 release of Commons + Compress but it is expected that this Antlib follows Commons + Compress' development and will add new compression or + archiving formats as they are provided by the underlying + library.
+ +The gzip and bzip2 tasks and resources are similar to the + corresponding tasks and types in Ant's core and mainly just + use a different code base for the implementation of the + formats.
+ +The same is mostly true for the zip and tar resources as well + as the unzip/tar task with the major difference being that + unzip and zipfileset can work with non-File resources.
+ +The zip and tar tasks are completely new implementations and + offer a superset of the functionality of the core tasks.
+ +Tasks and resources for the ar and cpio formats mirror those + available for tar and zip.
+ +All tasks and types can be mixed with the core tasks and + types; it is possible to use the core zip task to create an + archive based on an cpiofileset for example.