cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive Makefile README archive.h archive_check_magic.c archive_entry.3 archive_entry.c archive_entry.h archive_private.h archive_read.3 archive_read.c archive_read_data_into_buffer.c archive_read_data_into_fd.c archive_read_extract.c ...

[Gordon Tetlow]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:22:54PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> kientzle    2004/02/09 15:22:54 PST
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Added files:
>     lib/libarchive       Makefile README archive.h 
> <snip massive number of files>
>   Log:
>   Initial import of libarchive.
>   
>   What it is:
>      A library for reading and writing various streaming archive
>      formats, especially tar and cpio.  Being a library, it should
>      be easy to incorporate into pkg_* tools, sysinstall, and any
>      other place that needs to read or write such archives.
>   
>   Features:
>     * Full automatic detection of both compression and archive format.
>     * Extensible internal architecture to make it easy to add new formats.
>     * Support for "pax interchange format," a new POSIX-standard tar format
>       that eliminates essentially all of the restrictions of historic formats.
>     * BSD license
>   
>   Thanks to: jkh for pushing me to start this work, gordon for
>     encouraging me to commit it, bde for answering endless style
>     questions, and many others for feedback and encouragement.
>   
>   Status: Pretty good overall, though there are still a few rough edges and
>     the library could always use more testing.  Feedback eagerly solicited.

Great! I'm glad to see you finally got this committed.

-gordon
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