libarchive を Homebrew でインストール

プロジェクトリンク

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コマンドとエイリアス

• bsdcat
• bsdcpio
• bsdtar
• bsdunzip

プロジェクトの歴史

The project began in the FreeBSD orbit and was first released in 2006, according to its own libarchive 3.0 transition notes. Its design emphasized streaming, automatic format detection, and a single API that could handle tar, cpio, zip, ISO images, compression filters, and later many more formats.

採用の歴史

libarchive spread widely because packaging systems, installers, build tools, and OS utilities all need to unpack archives without shelling out to a pile of format-specific programs. Its bsdtar and bsdcpio utilities became FreeBSD-associated alternatives to GNU tar and cpio, while the library itself was packaged across Linux, macOS, BSD, and Windows-oriented environments.

使われ方

Applications link libarchive to read and write archives through one API, while users run bsdtar, bsdcpio, bsdcat, or bsdunzip. The project site emphasizes automatic handling of archive-plus-compression combinations such as tar.gz and support for POSIX-like systems plus Windows.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

libarchive is one of those packages that quietly makes package managers work. Its importance is in boring reliability: many archive formats, many platforms, a test suite, and CLI tools that can replace multiple single-format utilities.

タイムライン

• 2006: libarchive was first released.
• 2011-12: libarchive 3.0 was released after nearly two years of development since 2.8.
• 2016-04-30: libarchive 3.2.0 added bsdcat, LZ4, WARC, raw writer, and ZIP64-related features.
• 2018-09-03: libarchive 3.3.3 included Zstandard read and write filters.
• 2023-07-14: the project recorded a bsdunzip port from FreeBSD in NEWS.

Related projects

• Related projects include FreeBSD tar and cpio tooling, GNU tar, Info-ZIP, zlib, bzip2, xz, lz4, zstd, archive-consuming package managers, and installers.

ソース

• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/blob/master/NEWS
• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki
• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/Libarchive3
• https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/ReleaseNotes
• https://www.libarchive.org