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diff --git a/dev-java/commons-codec/metadata.xml b/dev-java/commons-codec/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f27bbde4a60f --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-java/commons-codec/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!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> |