On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 04:55 -0800, peter wrote: > On Feb 17, 9:55 pm, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n...@snipabacken.se> wrote: > > > > RAR is a proprietary format, which complicates things. For example, > > Linux distributions like Debian cannot distribute software which > > handles it. If Python included such a module, they'd be forced to > > remove it from their version. > > Good point, and one that I did not appreciate. But there are freeware > applications such as jzip (http://www.jzip.com) which can handle .rar > files, so there must be a way round it. > > > I wouldn't encourage its use by writing /more/ software which handles > > it. IMHO, archives should be widely readable forever, and to be that > > they need to be in a widely used, open format. > > I agree, but if a file is only available as a rar archive I would like > to be able to extract it without using another 3rd party application. > > peter Freeware is still proprietary software.
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