Closed maybeec closed 7 years ago
How is this related to the unzip task?
sry... I was guessing, that this part of the unzip task. But you are right, hat is part of the profile. Would it make sense to let the unzip task support msi?
I can test if the apache commons compress library can handle it.
I don't think so, there are some pitfalls with msi, so maybe we should not integrated it. Basically, whenever extracting an MSI it will waste your registry with additional garbage, which can be hardly circumvented. I tried it somehow without success. See eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin#490 and the comments on my PR as well as the upcoming issues in https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin/issues/503#issuecomment-258754636
If there is a whitespace in MSI file path, the extraction fails: