Fwd: [xwiki-dev] .xar Extension NOT Used Properly

[Catalin Hritcu]

Hello all,

What would you think of using the JAR extension instead of (mis-)
using XAR for XWiki applications, and using the JAR manifest for
storing the information that is now stored in package.xml ? Any other
way this can be fixed ?

Already created a JIRA task about this

http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-802

but I would like to hear your opinions before spending the time to
implement a change you might actually not want :)

Catalin

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net>
Date: Feb 2, 2007 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: [xwiki-dev] .xar Extension NOT Used Properly
To: Catalin Hritcu <catalin.hritcu at gmail.com>


Hi Catalin,

I think it's best to discuss all this on the list.

Also, I've provided some answer in JIRA.

Thanks
-Vincent


On Feb 1, 2007, at 11:22 PM, Catalin Hritcu wrote:

> Hi Vincent,
>
> I created a JIRA issue for this and assigned it to myself:
> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-802
>
> At the time I don't really know much about what needs to be changed to
> make it happen, but I'll look into it. Suggestions welcome :)
>
>> I guess we could use a JAR format and use information in the manifest
>> to describe the content of an archive
>
> Can you also be more precise about the information you want stored in
> the manifest?
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#JAR%20Manifest
> According to this it seems that a manifest can store many things.
>
> Regards,
> Catalin
>
> On 1/31/07, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
>> Hi Catalin,
>>
>> See my other email on this topic. Basically I think I agree with
>> you but
>> we're currently focusing on releasing XWiki 1.0 and fixing bugs.
>> this is an
>> improvement request that will have to wait for quite long unless
>> someone
>> contributes a patch for it (including patches for the
>> documentation ;-)).
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>>
>> On Jan 8, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Catalin Hritcu wrote:
>>
>>
>> The new way to import/export wiki pages is very useful. However, I
>>  think that using the .xar extension for the zip(!) archive is highly
>>  confusing. This because there is already a XAR(eXtensible ARchiver)
>>  archiving utility which uses the .xar extension for quite a
>> while. And
>>  while now XAR is standalone, it will be quite probable used by the
>>  MacOSX package system in the future. Then download your archive will
>>  yield an error like this (safari automatically expands archives):
>>
>>  "Error opening xar archive: xwiki-1.0-beta-1.xar"
>>
>>  Links:
>>  http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/xar/
>>  http://www.nabble.com/xar-in-Mac-OS-X-t2081148.html
>>
>>
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