Pavel,
I did some reading about paxutils on the gnu site. It sounds like an interesting project. I cloned the repository to look around and see what is happening. On their site, It said that, at the moment, code is being migrated from tar to paxutils. Does this mean that an API should not be developed for GNU tar, but instead for GNU paxutils? If this is the case, should I be talking to paxutils instead?
Also, if I did go ahead and develop an API for GNU tar only, would I be able to just modify the existing modules, or do I have to reinvent the wheel and more or less rewrite the entire project? I would really just like to be able to add some data structures and remove global variables.
I appreciate your help.
Charlie Sale