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Of course apple is known to be working on XAR, which is a (as I understand it) likely medium term replacement for BOM. They probably aren't going to waste time opensourcing BOM/adding enhancements if they are working on the (probable) replacement.

DarwinPorts is also hoping (as per the last discussion I remember) to use XAR if/when it matures.

Michael

Hi Michael, I actually work on xar :). Along with Rob Braun and Kevin Van Vechten and others. It's actually a library known to work on BSD, Linux, Mac OS X and a driver program known as "xar" that can archive and unarchive files and preserves things like resource forks and extended attributes [things tar doesn't do currently]. It's actually currently possible to archive up a Carbon application like MS Word and unpack it later and have it look like it did in Finder before you moved it and it will actually function. I don't know how this affects the BOM list format. Our Table of Contents in XAR is an XML document. I have no idea if Apple wants to use this stuff or not... We've not managed to freeze the development for a 1.0 on xar yet either but we've worked out quite a few bugs. It'd be great if people would give it a try anyway :). Dave

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