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author | Xander Ziiryanoff <psychomaniak@xakep.ru> |
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date | Sun Oct 15 17:45:47 2017 +0200 (2017-10-15) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/xar/description.txt Sun Oct 15 17:45:47 2017 +0200 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ 1.4 +The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format. Important 1.5 +design decisions include an easily extensible XML table of contents for random 1.6 +access to archived files, storing the toc at the beginning of the archive 1.7 +to allow for efficient handling of streamed archives, the ability to handle 1.8 +files of arbitrarily large sizes, the ability to choose independent encodings 1.9 +for individual files in the archive, the ability to store checksums for 1.10 +individual files in both compressed and uncompressed form, and the ability 1.11 +to query the table of content's rich meta-data.