[Xfce4-commits] r22552 - xarchiver/branches/xarchiver-psybsd/libxarchiver

[Stephan Arts]

On 7/28/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Stephan Arts wrote:
> > Author: stephan
> > Date: 2006-07-28 13:33:20 +0000 (Fri, 28 Jul 2006)
> > New Revision: 22552
> >
> > Modified:
> >    xarchiver/branches/xarchiver-psybsd/libxarchiver/archive-support.c
> > Log:
> > Added path-suffix check for tar detection. (traditional tar missing magic-nr)
>
> Just an idea, but if you are going to rewrite xarchiver anyway, why not
> simply use libarchive (the library that drives various tar/pax/cpio
> implementations) for the supported formats? Of course this will require
> threading the loading, extracting and creation of archives, but on the
> other hand you don't need to fiddle with command line tools that all
> have different semantics on various platforms for the most common
> archive formats.
>
> Currently, the library automatically detects and reads the following:
>   * gzip compression
>   * bzip2 compression
>   * compress/LZW compression
>   * GNU tar format (including GNU long filenames, long link names, and
>     sparse files)
>   * Solaris 9 extended tar format (including ACLs)
>   * Old V7 tar archives
>   * POSIX ustar
>   * POSIX pax interchange format
>   * POSIX octet-oriented cpio
>   * SVR4 ASCII cpio
>   * Binary cpio (big-endian or little-endian)
>   * ISO9660 CD-ROM images (with optional Rockridge extensions)
>   * ZIP archives (with uncompressed or "deflate" compressed entries)
>
> The library can write:
>   * gzip compression
>   * bzip2 compression
>   * POSIX ustar
>   * POSIX pax interchange format
>   * "restricted" pax format, which will create ustar archives except for
>     entries that require pax extensions (for long filenames, ACLs, etc).
>   * POSIX octet-oriented cpio
>   * shar archives
>
> The library is under a BSD license, so you can easily include it in
> xarchiver tarball and use the included version if the system is missing
> a copy of libarchive or its header files.

This is a good idea, it would decrease dependencies aswell. I will see
how i can use it.

> Benedikt