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diff --git a/archivers/xar/pkg-descr b/archivers/xar/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7a2670ccdc87 --- /dev/null +++ b/archivers/xar/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +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. + +WWW: http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/xar/ |