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<table> <tr><td>⚠️<td>Box is under active development. Do not expect compatibility between versions until v1.0. </table>Box - Open Standard Archive Format
boxcommand line applicationbox-formatRust crate and open specificationfuseboxdemonstration FUSE driver
The .box file format and related tooling is designed to be a modern successor to formats such as
.zip and .7z, removing several painpoints and introducing modern features and expectations:
Features
<table> <tr><td>🌉<td><strong>Cross-platform path support</strong>, with relative paths only and platform-agnostic separators <tr><td>🌐<td><strong>UTF-8 only, Unicode normalised</strong> path names and string data <tr><td>🔍<td>FST-based indexing for <strong>extremely fast path lookups</strong> <tr><td>👩🚀<td>Extensible with <strong>space-efficient attributes in key-value pairs</strong> for records and whole archives <tr><td>↔️<td>Configurable optional <strong>byte-alignment of files</strong> to enable easy memory mapping <tr><td>💽<td><strong>Inode-based metadata</strong> for tree-based structuring, mapping closely to how filesystems work <tr><td>📁<td>Support for <strong>directories, files and links</strong> <tr><td>🗜️<td><strong>Multiple compression methods</strong> within a single archive <tr><td>🖥️<td>A <strong>truly cross-platform command line tool</strong> <tr><td>📜<td>Well-defined, <strong>open specification</strong> of file format (due before v1.0) </table>Compression methods
Currently supported compression methods:
<ul> <li> Stored (no compression) <li> Brotli <li> DEFLATE <li> Snappy <li> xz <li> Zstandard </ul>Screenshots
Unix
<img width="809" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/279099/92532977-d17a6480-f231-11ea-8d8c-637918d2c6cc.png">Windows
<img width="815" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/279099/92532802-6466cf00-f231-11ea-9fc1-4e9342b37dd3.png">Supported platforms
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
- iOS
- Android
License
box-format
The box-format crate is licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (box-format/LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (box-format/LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
box
The box crate is licensed under
- European Union Public License, version 1.2, (box/LICENSE or https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/eupl-text-11-12)
The EUPL is a copyleft, GPL-compatible license managed by the European Union, translated into multiple languages. See this introduction for information about the purpose, objectives and translations of the license. See also the license compatibility matrix.