Re: p7zip and YACReader

2014-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Luis Ángel San Martín Rodríguez wrote: > libarchive has a limited support for rar files (rar v3 only). That isn't much different from p7zip-full not supporting rar if you don't use non-free things :) > It seems that there isn't a good solution for solving this is

Re: p7zip and YACReader

2014-09-11 Thread Luis Ángel San Martín Rodríguez
>Another option might be to use libarchive, if that supports the >relevant file formats: libarchive has a limited support for rar files (rar v3 only). >In that case you might want to work with the 7z and/or unar >upstreams to make a proper shared library with a good API, stable ABI >and public he

Re: p7zip and YACReader

2014-09-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Luis Ángel San Martín Rodríguez wrote: > Before YACReader 7.0 I was doing exactly that, using the command-line > interface. The problem is that this approach is slower than using 7z.so > directly, especially when you want to extract files in a certain order (f.e: >

Re: p7zip and YACReader

2014-09-10 Thread Luis Ángel San Martín Rodríguez
Hi, I am the developer of YACReader. >Interesting approach, it left me wondering why the normal command-line >interface wasn't good enough though. Before YACReader 7.0 I was doing exactly that, using the command-line interface. The problem is that this approach is slower than using 7z.so directl

Re: p7zip and YACReader

2014-09-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Felix Kauselmann wrote: > I'll try. YACReaders source code uses a bunch of code and header files from > p7zip to build it's internal logic (wrapper, whatever) to access 7z.so and > Rar29.so. 7z.so and Rar29.so are then loaded dynamically at runtime. As I > wrote be

Re: p7zip and YACReader

2014-09-09 Thread Felix Kauselmann
Am 09.09.2014 um 16:52 schrieb Paul Wise: On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Alexander Alemayhu wrote: source code isn't used to build p7zip but to build a wrapper for p7zip, as it comes without proper headers for library inclusion. On Debian, the wrapper uses Debian's version of p7zip, but it st

Re: p7zip and YACReader

2014-09-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Alexander Alemayhu wrote: > source code isn't used to build p7zip but to build a wrapper for p7zip, as it > comes without proper headers for library inclusion. On Debian, the wrapper > uses > Debian's version of p7zip, but it still needs a part of its source code

p7zip and YACReader

2014-09-09 Thread Alexander Alemayhu
Hei, together with Felix, Yoann and I have been trying to package YACReader[0] for debian[1]. Felix is part of upstream and they are cooperative to make the package lintian clean. One particular issue we have is p7zip which is already in debian, but upstream needs the source for building. Quotin