Re: [jgit-dev] plexus-archiver as optional "jgit archive" dependency

[Jonathan Nieder <jrn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Aniszczyk wrote:

> plexus archiver 2.2 is available:
> https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6821
>
> commons compress 1.3 is available:
> https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6258
>
> I would prefer whatever is the lighter weight dependency, which is probably
> commons compress (which supports external file attributes).

I've put up an RFC using commons-compress:

 https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/9007/

For simplicity this is as an actual dependency rather than an optional
one.  I haven't made my mind up about whether that's good.  I was
tempted to make archive formats for "jgit archive" into a kind of
plugins and just have one format (e.g., tar) built-in as a demo, but
there's also something to be said for the intuitiveness of letting
commons-compress take care of it all.

Anyway, thoughts welcome.

Thanks,
Jonathan