From 50f4d340fc2f88140ab3dc6eeaf9158381e7e3c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marco Bonetti Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:28:06 -0600 Subject: system/xar: Added. The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format. Thanks to Marco Bonetti. --- system/xar/README | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 system/xar/README (limited to 'system/xar/README') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3