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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>java@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Java</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| |
| <longdescription> |
| Codec was formed as an attempt to focus development effort on one |
| definitive implementation of the Base64 encoder. At the time of Codec's |
| proposal, there were approximately 34 different Java classes that dealt |
| with Base64 encoding spread over the Foundation's CVS repository. |
| Developers in the Jakarta Tomcat project had implemented an original |
| version of the Base64 codec which had been copied by the Commons |
| HttpClient and Apache XML project's XML-RPC subproject. After almost one |
| year, the two forked versions of Base64 had significantly diverged from |
| one another. XML-RPC had applied numerous fixes and patches which were |
| not applied to the Commons HttpClient Base64. Different subprojects had |
| differing implementations at various levels of compliance with the RFC |
| 2045. |
| |
| Out of that confusing duplication of effort sprang this simple attempt |
| to encourage code reuse among various projects. While this package |
| contains a abstract framework for the creation of encoders and decoders, |
| Codec itself is primarily focused on providing functional utilities for |
| working with common encodings. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |