Changes for version 2.00 - 2014-06-18
- this version serves primarily to bring the API in line with Archive::Ar 2.00
- added methods
- set_opt
- get_opt
- clear
- get_data
- chmod
- chown
- type
- rename
- extract
- extract_filename
- error
- contains_file
- deprecated methods
- DEBUG
- set_output_format_bsd
- set_output_format_svr4
- Archive::Ar::Libarchive now optionally exports type constants COMMON (referred to as "svr4" previous versions), GNU and BSD
- type detection: after reading an archive the type method will tell you the type of ar file.
- output format defaults to input format
- read and write metods will now accept a file handle or IO::Handle object
- GNU format is now supported for output
Modules
Interface for manipulating ar archives with libarchive