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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+    vcs.utils.archivers
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    set of archiver functions for creating archives from repository content
+
+    :created_on: Jan 21, 2011
+    :copyright: (c) 2010-2011 by Marcin Kuzminski, Lukasz Balcerzak.
+"""
+
+
+class BaseArchiver(object):
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.archive_file = self._get_archive_file()
+
+    def addfile(self):
+        """
+        Adds a file to archive container
+        """
+        pass
+
+    def close(self):
+        """
+        Closes and finalizes operation of archive container object
+        """
+        self.archive_file.close()
+
+    def _get_archive_file(self):
+        """
+        Returns container for specific archive
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+
+class TarArchiver(BaseArchiver):
+    pass
+
+
+class Tbz2Archiver(BaseArchiver):
+    pass
+
+
+class TgzArchiver(BaseArchiver):
+    pass
+
+
+class ZipArchiver(BaseArchiver):
+    pass
+
+
+def get_archiver(self, kind):
+    """
+    Returns instance of archiver class specific to given kind
+
+    :param kind: archive kind
+    """
+
+    archivers = {
+        'tar': TarArchiver,
+        'tbz2': Tbz2Archiver,
+        'tgz': TgzArchiver,
+        'zip': ZipArchiver,
+    }
+
+    return archivers[kind]()