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Subject: Re: [Call for testers] "BSD ar"
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Kai Wang <kaiwang27@gmail.com> writes:
> I think it's time for "BSD ar" to get a public review after months of
> bug hunting and cleaning up done by jkoshy@ and me.  The majority of
> the coding work was done during the summer of 2007 and was sponsored
> by Google SoC 2007 programme.

Just one question: why wasn't this done in libarchive?

(ar is basically just an archiving format, the cross-reference stuff is
an optional addition)

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