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amejia1 edited this page Feb 4, 2012 · 2 revisions

A few projects and people who use libarchive.

Who Uses Libarchive?

  • FreeBSD
    • libarchive was originally developed for FreeBSD; it was first released with FreeBSD 5.3 in November 2004.
    • bsdtar is the default system tar starting with FreeBSD 6
    • bsdcpio is the default system cpio starting with FreeBSD 8
    • Kai Wang's "ar" is standard with FreeBSD 8
    • Dag-Erling Smørgrav's "unzip" is standard with FreeBSD 8
  • Package Managers
  • Archiving tools and File Browsers
    • The tarsnap service uses libarchive in its client software.
    • Springy for Mac OS X uses libarchive to process TAR, PAX and CPIO archives.
    • Nautilus file browser uses libarchive
    • The archivemount filesystem (part of FUSE) uses libarchive
    • KDE's ark file browser uses libarchive for tar, deb, and ISO files.
  • Ports of libarchive, bsdtar, etc.
If you know of other projects that should be in this list, please let us know.
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