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author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Tue Mar 03 13:41:23 2020 +0100 (2020-03-03) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/xar/description.txt Tue Mar 03 13:41:23 2020 +0100 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.