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Thanks for replying. Maybe I misunderstood something. The way I saw it, I can not use plakar without having to install Go first (the dependency). And that bothers me a bit. Let me explain my reasoning. Suppose I made an .ptar archive today, put it on a USB stick, threw that in a vault and forgot about it. Ten years down the road I want to restore that archive. But the .ptar file alone is useless without the plakar to…
oh, that's not meant to stay that way. first, we're going to release pre-built binaries for various platforms with our next stable release which will remove the need to install a go runtime as you'll have a standalone native executable for plakar / ptar. then, the format is open and we'll publish a friendlier documentation should someone want to implement their own builder/reader. finally, it's likely we'll publish a…
Great, that is exactly what I was missing! Thank you for your great work.