tardex

A Rust crate to access a file's contents and metadata in a tarball using its path. It's a "tarball index".

Why?

The tar crate provides an extensive API but randomly accessing tarball entries by path is slightly awkward, because it:

• requires mutable access to the Archive.
• requires accessing the entries in order each time, not randomly.

Tardex is just a less featureful alternative interface tuned for a particular use case, built atop it.

Anticipated features

• Support hard and symbolic link tarball entries
• Support directory tarball entries
• Support Tardex<File>, which will require exclusive access to the underlying reader (File is not Clone) when reading an Entry and therefore will need a different API.

License

Tardex is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in Tardex by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.