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> We have added native support for additional archive formats, including tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and many others using the libarchive open-source project. You now c
by crakenzak 3y ago
> We have added native support for additional archive formats, including tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and many others using the libarchive open-source project. You now can get improved performance of archive functionality during compression on Windows.
This is easily the most exciting part of the whole announcement.
- Filligree 3y agoYes, but why did it take so many years?
- crakenzak 3y agoprobably because they were spending all those years putting annoying ads in the OS and start menu.
- recursive 3y agoMS has enough developers to build two features at the same time.
- solarkraft 3y agoBut not to fix annoying and abundantly obvious bugs, apparently
- CaptainNegative 3y ago1. Ads in the Start Menu. 2. Ads in the rest of the OS.
- pjmlp 3y agoYou would think, yet WinUI 3.0 is years away to achieve parity with WinUI 2.0/UWP tooling.
- agluszak 3y agoSo what you're suggesting is that they won't put any more annoying ads in the OS? ;)
- creatonez 3y agoThe Big WinRAR lobby /s
- markdog12 3y agoWhat about zstd? Update: looks like no: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveFormats#archive-formats-supported https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveForm... :(
- chenxiaolong 3y agoThe wiki page is just out of date. It's been supported in libarchive for several years, though it's optional at compile time, so this new Windows build might not have it (I didn't check).
- markdog12 3y agoInteresting, thx! Fingers crossed, as zstd is awesome.
- mjrpes 3y agoWonder if it includes support for encrypted 7zip/rar archives, including support to add/modify. From libarchive notes it looks like zip format encrypted archives are supported.
- attentive 3y agoOr you could just install 7zip. Where is zstandard or lz4 on ntfs? Meta and data checksumming and autorecovery? New and improved filesystems?