Hello Tar Developers,

As a brief introduction, my name is Charlie Sale.

I am developing an application that manages GNU archive formats such as tar
and gzip formats. Upon planning for this project, I found out that there is
no C API in the GNU tar package. I am aware of some archive libraries like
libarchive (https://www.libarchive.org/) and libtar (
https://github.com/tklauser/libtar) for example, but both of these are
additional dependencies outside of the GNU tar package.

My though was to develop a C API that would be part of the GNU tar package.
It would handle tasks that would be completed via the command line option.
My thinking is that it would convenient to have a built-in API instead of
having to find outside dependencies.

Is it worth it to pursue this project? Is there a point in developing it?
Other thoughts/concerns?

Let me know what you think.

Thanks for your time,
Charlie Sale

Savannah: softwaresale
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