Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:41:11 +0200 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gzip-like CLI wrapper for p7zip Message-ID: <20051021184111.GA8951@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20051020104328.GA1150@aragorn> References: <20051018140137.GA16159@aragorn> <20051018200544.GA26528@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <200510192246.j9JMkUIj013329@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <20051020104328.GA1150@aragorn>
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:43:28PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:46:30AM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote: > >[...] > > Well, i dont know if the 7z maintainers are interested in supporting > > streaming themselves, it could well happen they bump their version > > for other reasons, which means p7zip's version numbering would have > > to be orthogonal to theirs... > > AFAIK, p7zip attempts to track 7zip sources closely and merge stuff. But even > if it forked, it'd be very unlikely (and counter-productive) to also fork the > file format specs. I don't think 7zip maintainers have a problem integrating > streaming support if it doesn't break anything (but if you're concerned about > that, never hurts to ask..) > > Please let me know if you add that wrapper script. Well, because a `proper' p7zip executable could check the file type and thus still support existing files in the old non-stream-aware compressed format (I somehow overlooked this simple fact :) we can leave this for others to decide and just add the preliminary script. So, yes, I have just submitted the patch I posted here.
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