Hi all,
Robin has pushed a PR in github in July that implemented the random access of tar : https://github.com/apache/commons-compress/pull/113 It's achieved by reading the tar once and have the start position of each tar entry stored. Tar is not designed to be random accessed so this may be a time consuming way. IMO this is not a must feature, but it's a good idea that may be useful when we only want some specific entries in giant tars. This is a big change in tar so I want to hear your voices. WDYT? cheers, Lee
