Bug#345013: kaffe: buggy java.util.zip implementation

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Michael Koch wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 03:15:23PM +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 02:32:49PM +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
>>
>>>Trying the war from inside
>>>http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/alfresco/alfresco-war-1.1.1.zip (or any
>>>other sf mirror of that file) in a sarge tomcat4+kaffe deployment, fails
>>>with an IOException for one of the jar files inside.
>>
>>...
>>
>>>Googling around for the exception message learns that the kaffe zip classes
>>>are known to be buggy, and supposedly using those from classpath-common
>>>might help.
>>
>>FWIW, I've rebuilt testing/unstable kaffe for sarge and it happens with
>>that one, too.
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Filip
>>
>>PS. I can upload my kaffe build to backports.org, if you wish, so it is
>>publicly available for others. At least it fixes the security manager
>>issue with tomcat among other things.
> 
> 
> I doubt this is a goos idea as kaffe in testing/unstable is severely
> broken. We should at least wait for the next release of kaffe. This
> "should" fix most of the issues. Uploading kaffe in current state will
> only give bad press.

Hi Filip, Hi Michael,

Indeed, kaffe's CVS head is shaping up nicely for me, and passes the 
regression test suites on x86-linux,x86-frerbsd,amd64-linux and 
powerpc-linux, and even looks fairly good (just three failing regression 
tests) on alpha-linux for the first time in a while.

Regarding the zip implementation, I would not mind switching Kaffe over 
to use the GNU Classpath java.util.zip implementation, if I can see that 
it performs as well on the interpreter engine as what we have at the 
moment. I need to give it another look, I have not investigated that 
recently.

> BTW: I plan to maintain some backports of Java stuff from unstable on
> backports.org including kaffe, ant, tomcat5, eclipse, etc.

Thanks, Michael!

cheers,
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