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diff --git a/system/xar/README b/system/xar/README index 8ff2186de6..82c36b3f4e 100644 --- a/system/xar/README +++ b/system/xar/README @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ 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. +access to archived files; storing the table 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; the ability to query the table +of content's rich meta-data. + +NOTE: This script builds a fork of the original XAR project developed by Rob +Braun at code.google.com. The forked project includes several bug fixes and +enhancements. |