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| author | Marco Bonetti <sid77@slackware.it> | 2010-03-03 14:28:06 -0600 |
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| committer | Erik Hanson <erik@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-13 13:25:43 +0200 |
| commit | 50f4d340fc2f88140ab3dc6eeaf9158381e7e3c2 (patch) | |
| tree | aa8240790af14fc3bc6b349e4b277d47ba4241fd /system/xar/README | |
| parent | b50b680e7b8f4e7924f6fb7ed354de801c499623 (diff) | |
system/xar: Added.
The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive
format. Thanks to Marco Bonetti.
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diff --git a/system/xar/README b/system/xar/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..8ff2186de68a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/xar/README @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format. Important +design decisions include an easily extensible XML table of contents for random +access to archived files, storing the toc at the beginning of the archive to +allow for efficient handling of streamed archives, the ability to handle files +of arbitrarily large sizes, the ability to choose independent encodings for +individual files in the archive, the ability to store checksums for individual +files in both compressed and uncompressed form, and the ability to query the +table of content's rich meta-data. |