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The frustrating thing about 7zip is that whilst it's opensource, a single author just does code drops. So there's a bunch of forks with useful features that'll
by Jonnax 6y ago
The frustrating thing about 7zip is that whilst it's opensource, a single author just does code drops.
So there's a bunch of forks with useful features that'll never be adopted because there's no collaboration.
At least that's what I could tell when I looked into it
- rav 6y agoIt sounds like it needs a fork to combine all the forks, similar to what Neovim did as a fork of Vim.
- 0-_-0 6y agoWould that be like... a reverse fork? A defork? A korf?
- diggernet 6y agoOh heck, let's just call it a spoon.
- OldHand2018 6y agoNice. Really, anything that had solid support would be nice. My company delivers data to customers and our customers use all sorts of operating systems. Plain Zip seems to be our lowest common denominator because we can’t count on our customers being tech-savvy or having an IT department. I really, really, really wish there were more compression standards that were supported on a wide variety of platforms. “Obscure” software package A just doesn’t cut it.
- nyanpasu64 6y agoI liked http://www.e7z.org/ http://www.e7z.org/ for its UI improvements, but it was last updated in 2016 and misses out on several security bug patches.