pkgsrc-wip/eet/DESCR
2007-04-29 11:58:35 +00:00

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EET is a tiny library designed to write an arbitary set of chunks of data
to a file and optionally compress each chunk (very much like a zip file)
and allow fast random-access reading of the file later on.
It does not do zip as a zip itself has more complexity than is needed,
and it was much simpler to impliment this once here.
Eet is extremely fast, small and simple.
Eet files can be very small and highly compressed,
making them very optimal for just sending across the internet
without having to archive, compress or decompress and install them.
They allow for lightning-fast random-acess reads once created,
making them perfect for storing data that is written once (or rarely)
and read many times, but the program does not want to have to read it all
in at once.
It also can encode and decode data structures in memory,
as well as image data for saving to Eet files or sending across the network
to other machines, or just writing to arbitary files on the system.
All data is encoded in a platform independant way and can be written
and read by any architecture.