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diff --git a/system/xar/README b/system/xar/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8ff2186de6 --- /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. |