Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity - What's Next?

[Rob Braun]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:21:45PM -0700, Nathaniel Nutter wrote:
> >Xar looks similar to dar, and already has Python bindings:
> >
> >http://code.google.com/p/xar/
> 
> xar has my vote! It seems to do well at preserving metadata, etc.
> 
> http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2007/05/07/xar-rox/

FYI, xar is being used as the container format for packages
in Mac OS X 10.5, and in rpm5.  I've suggested xar a few times
in the past, ever since having been pointed to:
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/new_format.html
which is remarkably similar to:
http://code.google.com/p/xar/wiki/xarformat

Rob