On 3. okt.. 2007, at 02.16, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
6) New file format. I'm thinking that this needs to be
addressed if
we're going to play in the major leagues. Having to decompress/
decrypt
several megs/gigs to get to a small critical file to restore is
not a
good thing. It's secure, but at a high price. There are some
other
projects out there with better formats. What we need is one
already
vetted by heavy use, so any suggestions will be considered.
Xar looks similar to dar, and already has Python bindings:
http://code.google.com/p/xar/