[new release] tar (4 packages) (3.0.0)

[dinosaure]

Decode and encode tar format files in pure OCaml

• Project page: https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-tar
• Documentation: https://mirage.github.io/ocaml-tar/

CHANGES:

• Fix Header.marshal and the checksum and the length (@reynir, Header.marshal, checksum: check length mirage/ocaml-tar#145)

• Delete a mutable field about the level into the header (@hannesm, remove ref to compatibility level mirage/ocaml-tar#141)

• BREAKING: de-functorize the package (@hannesm, @reynir, @dinosaure, revise a decoder and encoder, being pure mirage/ocaml-tar#140, Pure dec enc with gz mirage/ocaml-tar#143, New tar gz mirage/ocaml-tar#146)

  These PRs attempt to de-functorize Tar so that users can implement I/O
  themselves, using Tar's own element serialization/deserialization functions
  to take advantage of read/write methods. This avoids imposing on the user the
  implementation of a module that is too rigid in his/her case (which could have
  performance implications).

  Tar offers functions for serializing/deserializing tar-specific elements
  from string. It is then up to the user to know how to obtain or write these
  strings.

  To this, these PRs add "logics" (see 'a Tar.t) requiring read and/or write
  implementations and describing how to extract all entries from a tar file or
  how to write a tar file according to a "dispenser" (like Seq.to_dispenser)
  of entries.

  These logics do not depend on a particular "scheduler", and these PRs propose
  a derivation of these logics with tar-unix, tar-eio and tar-mirage.
  These latter derivations mean that the API for these packages has only been
  extended, and there are no breaking changes as such.

  These logics also make it easy to offer a compression/decompression layer with
  decompress, so you can easily manipulate and/or create a .tar.gz file.

[raphael-proust]

Thanks for the contribution!