[Building Sakai] KNL-155/SAK-16036/SAK-800: Resources archive file handling issues

[Per Wising]

+1 for comenting out

Since I originally filed SAK-800 I feel obliged to chime in on this  
and I suggest we promote stability over flakiness any day.

/Per

On 16 apr 2009, at 19.16, Anthony Whyte wrote:

> In April 2008 code was merged into trunk /content (r 45419, 45421)  
> and the API and  service modifications were later repackaged in the  
> kernel (K1) in order to provide the ability to create/extract from  
> archive file types (e.g., .zip, .tar, .tgz).  The most recent  
> comments in SAK-800 combined with recent testing by Matt Jones of  
> UMich (as reported in KNL-155) indicates that this feature still has  
> a number of problems associated with it (Matt's comments are below).
>
> Given these concerns and the short time frame that now exists with  
> respect to the upcoming 2.6.0 release Matt has suggested the  
> following options in lieu of fixing it:
>
> 1) remove it
> 2) comment it out
> 3) wrap it in a property setting (enable/disable) and add the new  
> property (e.g., resources.zip.experimental = false) to /config  
> default.sakai.properties.  Default = disabled.
>
> I'd appreciate your opinion on the matter.
>  [...]