tar 1.0.4

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• Migrate away from UnmodifiableUint8ListView which is deprecated in Dart 3.4.

• Fix the reader throwing a FormatException (instead of a TarException) when reading tar files with invalid UTF bytes in their PAX headers.
• Fix a range error for invalid zero-length PAX entries.

• Fix a few typos in documentation comments.

• Fix an incompatibility with Dart 3.1.

• Breaking Add class modifiers where applicable.

• Allow cancelling a TarEntry.contents subscription before reading more files.

• No user-visible changes.

• Fix a crash when pausing a subscription to TarEntry.contents right before it ends.

• Fix generating corrupt tar files when adding lots of entries at very high speeds (#20).
• Allow tar files with invalid utf8 content in PAX header values if those values aren't used for anything important.

• Improve error messages when reading a tar entry after, or during, a call to moveNext().

• This package now supports being compiled to JavaScript.

• Improve performance when reading large archives

• Support sync encoding with tarConverter.

• Support generating tar files with GNU-style long link names
• Add format parameter to tarWritingSink and tarWriterWith

• Drop chunked_stream dependency in favor of package:async.

• Allow arbitrarily many zero bytes at the end of an archive when disallowTrailingData is enabled.

• Add disallowTrailingData parameter to TarReader. When the option is set, readNext will ensure that the input stream does not emit further data after the tar archive has been read fully.

• Remove outdated references in the documentation

• Remove TarReader.contents and TarReader.header. Use current.contents and current.header, respectively.
• Fix some minor implementation details

Most of the tar package has been rewritten, it's now based on the implementation written by Garett Tok Ern Liang in the GSoC 2020.

• Added tar prefix to exported symbols.
• Remove MemoryEntry. Use TarEntry.data to create a tar entry from bytes.
• Make WritingSink private. Use tarWritingSink to create a general StreamSink<tar.Entry>.
• TarReader is now a StreamIterator, the transformer had some design flaws.

• Support writing user and group names
• Better support for PAX-headers and large files

• Initial version