Active development and documentation?

[mikshir]

Greetings,

I'm working on a project where xar may be an ideal candidate save for
the fact that the available command-line tool[1] is underdeveloped
functionally (e.g. I need pipe to stdout functionality among other
things). In addition to the library API, much but not all of which
can be found on the google-code site, I'd like to find more complete
documentation on the file format: e.g. xar dtd description, what
subdocuments are, what they look like, where they go, and hopefully
some how-to's and best-practices for appending/deleting/updating xar
archive contents and metadata. Is there anything like that
available?

Lastly (for now), Is this still being actively developed? There seems
to be some high-profile projects (RPM, OSX) that "support" the format
as late as January but very little activity on the whole and a dearth
of relevant page hits via web search.

Regards

[1] I have PyXar built and installed to see if it allows for the
functionality I desire but I have yet to get it to operate without
segfaulting.

[Rob Braun]

xar is still alive, I promise to do more with it soon.  :-)

Contributions on the documentation as well as code is welcome as well!

Rob

[Jeff Johnson]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Rob Braun <bbr...@gmail.com> wrote:

xar is still alive, I promise to do more with it soon.  :-)

Contributions on the documentation as well as code is welcome as well!

wrto RPM, me too. The inertial resistance to changing *.rpm format is tectonic however.

73 de Jeff 

[Michael Shire]

Thanks Guys. Good to hear.

There's still some discussion at work on archive format and I'll
probably play with it some more after my vacation. If we settle on
this I of course will do what I can to contribute.

I've compiled some tests using the examples in google-code and should
point out what seems to be a persistent typeo: Many examples have
"xar_iter_i i;" but I cannot find this typdef. I think it was
supposed to be xar_iter_t and that works.

Cheers

[Rob Braun]

Thanks, I think I've updated all xar_iter_i references to xar_iter_t
in the wiki.

Rob