The goal of this task is the addition of the filetype for XAR archives to the Haiku mime database. This is a coding task, for this task you will need to have a Haiku build environment setup, and be able to compile Haiku to test to see if your addition works. The patch should add a file src/data/beos_mime/application/x-xar. With the addition, Haiku should be able to recognize XAR archives whatever their names are.

Requirements:

• Install Haiku either on real hardware or in Virtual Machine (BTW, I can assist installing VirtualBox so it is obviously recommended by me);
• Take familiar with the problem you should fix;
• Get the Haiku source tree build it and find solution to fix the problem;
• After completing this task, please provide me with the patch implementing the addition.

Resources:

Haiku Alpha A4.1 (required developer tools are included) http://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku

Getting and building Haiku sources: http://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building

XAR wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xar_%28archiver%29

Good luck!