On 18.02.2011 19:51, Westley MartÃnez wrote:
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.
While I agree with the general refusal of .rar or other non-free
archive formats, a useful archiving tool should still be able to
extract them. Creating them is an other issue.
There is a free (open source) un-rar for Linux which AFAIK can at
least handle .rar archives below v3.
HTH
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