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[Larry Gilbert <larry+launchpad@xxxxxx>]

Ken has been itching for some time to replace the underlying use of
tar archives with something else.

I just ran across xar today and wondered if anyone's had experience
with it, good or bad.

http://code.google.com/p/xar/

I haven't dug into it yet, but it claims to address many of the
limitations of tar that Ken outlines in
http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/new_format.html.  The only negative
I've seen so far is that it uses some XML. :-)

There is also a Python module for it, although they say it's incomplete.

-- 
Larry Gilbert
Computer geekery since 1976
Sent from Del Mar, CA, United States