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oh, that's not meant to stay that way.

first, we're going to release pre-built binaries for various platforms with our next stable release which will remove the need to install a go runtime as you'll have a standalone native executable for plakar / ptar.

then, the format is open and we'll publish a friendlier documentation should someone want to implement their own builder/reader.

finally, it's likely we'll publish a library + standalone executable in C, so that people can easily implement a binding to their favourite language and/or have a small executable in a language that traverses the decades :-)

a standalone native executable for plakar / ptar.

Great, that is exactly what I was missing! Thank you for your great work.

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