From a3ceca1b4c0d9bdb550dc23f06ffbb5a8e033bc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: root Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 16:24:49 -0500 Subject: Adding metadata --- dev-java/commons-codec/metadata.xml | 32 -------------------------------- 1 file changed, 32 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 dev-java/commons-codec/metadata.xml (limited to 'dev-java/commons-codec/metadata.xml') diff --git a/dev-java/commons-codec/metadata.xml b/dev-java/commons-codec/metadata.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 3a111ef6e0e6..000000000000 --- a/dev-java/commons-codec/metadata.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ - - - - - java@gentoo.org - Java - - - apache/commons-codec - - - -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. - - -- cgit v1.3.1