libarchive-2.2.0.2: README.md

# libarchive

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This contains Haskell bindings to
[libarchive](http://libarchive.org/). It was created as an alternative to
[tar](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/tar) and
[tar-archive](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/tar-conduit), but it supports
more archive formats.

It has a high-level Haskell API for creating and unpacking archives in addition
to the C API. Like the `tar` package, it can stream from lazy `ByteString`s.

## Hacking

To run the test suite, first run

```
make
```

so that you have appropriate test data downloaded.

## Performance

`libarchive` is faster than `tar` or `tar-conduit` when unpacking archives.