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tsujan / Arqiver

Simple Qt archive manager based on libarchive,...
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lxqt-archiver vs. Arqiver? #23

Closed probonopd closed 3 years ago

probonopd commented 3 years ago

Are

somehow related? Are both under active development, are there any philosophical differences between the two? Which one would you recommend us to ship in helloSystem?

tsujan commented 3 years ago

lxqt-archiver belongs to LXQt and is a Qt fork of engrampa — its core code is based on GLib and it uses libfm-qt — while Arqiver is an DE-independent, Qt-based front-end for bsdtar (as it's called in Linux), 7z and gzip. They're both under active development: lxqt-archiver by the LXQt team (me included) and Arqiver by me.

Their main difference is that lxqt-archiver uses GLib to handle the command-line options of its backends, while Arqiver does it by using Qt. Because of that, Arqiver has a much more compact code.