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Of course Windows would integrate libarchive into the GUI, while Linux GUI applications still popen CLI archiver tools. This is a pet peeve of mine, but now it'
by jchw 3y ago
Of course Windows would integrate libarchive into the GUI, while Linux GUI applications still popen CLI archiver tools. This is a pet peeve of mine, but now it's just a bit sad. The majority of the work is done and it's open source, but... I don't think I've seen anyone integrating it.
- account42 3y agohttps://github.com/KDE/ark/tree/master/plugins/libarchive https://github.com/KDE/ark/tree/master/plugins/libarchive
- jchw 3y agoI stand corrected, but this is strange. Empirically I know that at least most of the time, tools are just phoning out to `unar`, because if I run into problems it becomes immediately obvious. I wonder if libarchive is/was just not good enough to handle most of the things.