.xar Extension NOT Used Properly
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
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
On Jan 24, 2007, at 2:38 AM, [email protected] 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:
-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 PS: Always keep the original text you're replying to. We're reading hundreds of emails per day it's almost impossible to remember every single email... ___________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail r�invente le mail ! D�couvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface r�volutionnaire. http://fr.mail.yahoo.com
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