[MSHARED-1451] Describe archive format in active voice

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Elliotte Rusty Harold opened MSHARED-1451 and commented

The introduction page says, "The Maven Archiver is mainly used by plugins to handle packaging." but i doesn't seem to ever say what the format of an archive is. Is it a JAR? a zip? .tar.gz? something else? Any of the above dependiing on parameters?

We should say something like, "Plugins use the Maven archiver to package compiled .class files into a JAR file." Of course, that language might not be correct since I don't know what format we use. Or maybe, "The maven-archiver is a library (not a Mojo or plugin) used by plugins to..."

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Michael Osipov commented

Why does this actually matter since it is a more-or-less privately used component?

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Elliotte Rusty Harold commented

Well, I'd like to know. I currently don't. :-)