[Bug] 7ZIPEXTRACT_USE_EXTERNAL

[thealjey]

Bug Report

Current Behavior

Why, oh please tell me why is 7ZIPEXTRACT_USE_EXTERNAL completely ignored? I did find a few issues that have, supposedly, been fixed long ago. But, evidently, the problem wasn't really fixed, because it is still tormenting me today, with all the latest versions of everything installed. I do have 7zip installed globally using chocolatey and the 7z command is globally available to powershell.

Expected Behavior

A global installation of 7zip used.

Additional context/output

PS C:\Users\aljey> (Get-Command '7z' -CommandType Application -ErrorAction Stop | Select-Object -First 1).Source
C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\7z.exe

PS C:\Users\aljey> scoop config 7ZIPEXTRACT_USE_EXTERNAL true
'7ZIPEXTRACT_USE_EXTERNAL' has been set to 'true'

PS C:\Users\aljey> scoop install renpy
Installing '7zip' (24.07) [64bit] from 'main' bucket
The remote name could not be resolved: 'www.7-zip.org'
URL https://www.7-zip.org/a/7z2407-x64.msi is not valid

Possible Solution

Maybe don't ignore your own configuration options and show meaningful error messages instead of eagerly jumping into the installation of a package you were not asked to be installed??

Or, how about making it possible to specify $7zPath directly, removing the need for any searching at all?

System details

Windows version: 11

OS architecture: 64bit

PowerShell version: Major	Minor	Build	Revision
5	1	22621	3672

Additional software: [(optional) e.g. ConEmu, Git]

Scoop Configuration

{
    "last_update":  "2024-06-28T00:16:41.7796475+03:00",
    "scoop_repo":  "https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop",
    "scoop_branch":  "master",
    "7zipextract_use_external":  true
}

[chawyehsu]

7ZIPEXTRACT_USE_EXTERNAL's been deprecated, please run scoop help config to view the valid config options.

[thealjey]

@chawyehsu that one comment was more helpful to my nervous system, than the whole scoop website

have a lovely day and thank you very much!