8 Jan
2007
8 Jan
'07
11:32 a.m.
The new way to import/export wiki pages is very useful. However, I
think that using the .xar extension for the zip(!) archive is highly
confusing. This because there is already a XAR(eXtensible ARchiver)
archiving utility which uses the .xar extension for quite a while. And
while now XAR is standalone, it will be quite probable used by the
MacOSX package system in the future. Then download your archive will
yield an error like this (safari automatically expands archives):
"Error opening xar archive: xwiki-1.0-beta-1.xar"
Links:
http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/xar/
http://www.nabble.com/xar-in-Mac-OS-X-t2081148.html
24 Jan
24 Jan
2:38 a.m.
I'd have to agree with this. When I first saw that XAR was the file format for XWiki I
assumed it was the eXtensible ARchive format - I wasted a bit of time archiving some files
only to find out it's not really XAR. More info here:
http://code.google.com/p/xar
-Greg
31 Jan
31 Jan
8:55 p.m.
New subject: [xwiki-dev] Re: .xar Extension NOT Used Properly
On Jan 24, 2007, at 2:38 AM, greg_j_miller(a)agilent.com wrote:
I'd have to agree with this. When I first saw that XAR was the file
format for XWiki I assumed it was the eXtensible ARchive format - I
wasted a bit of time archiving some files only to find out it's not
really XAR. More info here:
http://code.google.com/p/xar
-Greg
I guess we could use a JAR format and use information in the manifest
to describe the content of an archive. Do you have a patch? :-)
The thing is, it probably won't be implemented anytime soon (provided
we all agreed on this which isn't sure - I do agree but I don't know
if others will) if nobody submit a patch as we currently have more
important stuff to fix and this is only an improvement request.
Thanks
-Vincent
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