[MASSEMBLY-862] Assembly creation fails on Windows when extracting a tar.gz containing a symbolic link

**[Axel Fontaine](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=axel.fontaine)** opened **[MASSEMBLY-862](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MASSEMBLY-862?redirect=false)** and commented

Related issue: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/issues/66

Workaround: open console with admin rights

Suggested solution:
The platform the build runs on should not influence the ability to build the assembly. The issue with the Maven Assembly Plugin (which uses the Plexus Archiver) is actually that it depends on the filesystem (and its capabilities on the current platform) to build the archive, whereas it could also build it fully in-memory and be truly platform independent. This should be the default, with maybe an optional flag to revert to disk buffering for extra large payloads.

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**Affects:** 3.0.0

Start by reviewing the Maven Assembly Plugin's use of Plexus Archiver and the related plexus-archiver issue 66, then reproduce extraction of a tar.gz containing a symbolic link on Windows. Done should mean assembly creation no longer depends on filesystem capabilities or administrator rights, while preserving an option for disk buffering if the proposed design requires it.

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