wok annotate xar/description.txt @ rev 17259
Add xar.
| author | Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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| date | Wed Oct 22 00:09:32 2014 +0300 (2014-10-22) |
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| al@17259 | 1 The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format. Important |
| al@17259 | 2 design decisions include an easily extensible XML table of contents for random |
| al@17259 | 3 access to archived files, storing the toc at the beginning of the archive |
| al@17259 | 4 to allow for efficient handling of streamed archives, the ability to handle |
| al@17259 | 5 files of arbitrarily large sizes, the ability to choose independent encodings |
| al@17259 | 6 for individual files in the archive, the ability to store checksums for |
| al@17259 | 7 individual files in both compressed and uncompressed form, and the ability |
| al@17259 | 8 to query the table of content's rich meta-data. |