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