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john32b / cdcrush.net

Highly compress cd-image games .NET version
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Dropping FreeArc #2

Closed john32b closed 6 years ago

john32b commented 6 years ago

I chose FreeArc for compressing the archives a few years ago for the npm version of cdcrush, it is an open source archiver and it provided good and fast compression.

However It seems that it's inactive for a long time and the project's homepage is down http://freearc.org. The latest free arc version 0.666 , can't be found from officially anywhere online, neither does the source code.

So I'm going to drop freearc for compressing but not entirely, I'm going to keep it for backwards compatibility, so old archives can still be extracted.

As for what I'm going to be replacing freearc with, I'm guessing 7-zip since it's open source, well documented and supported.

john32b commented 6 years ago

Will NOT drop FreeArc, It offers good compression rations and it's fast. I'm going to think about adding 7zip Also I just added progress capture from FreeArc which I thought was broken.