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XAR – NEW MacOS X 10.5 package format

December 30th, 2006 skr3dii Leave a comment Go to comments

New package format in MacOS X 10.5 implemented by Apple.
They chose XAR.

Seems they made the decision a few months ago, but it’s finally implemented
in the last seed of MacOS X 10.5 (link)

The latest release seeded to developers has the xar tool and libxar.

Package Maker and Installer have been adapted to create and install
packages using the xar format (respectively).
Should we expect a major update of Pacifist software soon?

Interesting links:

www.opendarwin.org/projects/xar/
www.opendarwin.org/~bbraun/whyxar.html

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Rich

This is great you can download and burn for mac osx, can't wait to see all the open source software coming out. It's a complete 360.

Mat

Between this, native GTK support, ZFS and Mac OS forge, Leopard is going to be filled with some serious open source win. I can't wait for next week!

Neonkoala

Looks pretty slick - it was in need of a revamp though.

Xara

Hooray, another open source project using the .XAR file extension.

skr3dii

Snow melted.

Court K

Apple is switching formats including it's Installer tool as well, anyone who attended WWDC sessions would know this. The new package formats allow for updates on the fly, setting the URL as the file download (so you can just run the installer and the latest version gets installed, digitally signed and all. All the info is available to select and
premier developer accounts

Stefan24

I can't read the story correctly because the snow is really annoying please stop it now !!

james

ok, maybe you would like to lose the snow?

Jon

Oh noess!!! Does this mean mac users will not be able to run it?

AppleLegal

How do ya know what its used for? for all we know, they're going to compress .kext's. or they're just adding support as an additional option for developers to use.

Fsy

What's the difference anyways?

la la la

No, but if Apple comes out and *says* they are switching, then they probably are.

See <%3C/br">http://www.nabble.com/xar-in-Mac-OS-X-t2081148....>