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 directly, especially when you want to extract files in a certain order (f.e: open a comic by the last page read). Regards. 2014-09-10 3:41 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org>: > 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 before, there are no official library headers for these .so files, > so > > this approach is not as uncommon as one would think. > > Interesting approach, it left me wondering why the normal command-line > interface wasn't good enough though. > > You will note that Rar29.so is available in p7zip-rar, which is > non-free. It might be a good idea to use unar (not unrar) instead of > p7zip since it supports RAR files using DFSG-free code and also > supports 7z and other files. In case you need metadata about files in > an archive before extracting an archive, it has lsar -json, which > obviously outputs machine-readable metadata about the files in JSON > format. > > http://unarchiver.c3.cx/commandline > https://packages.debian.org/sid/unar > > > From a packagers perspective it's a bit problematic. While the pragmatic > > approach of repackaging the upstream tarball and adding the needed source > > files works, I'd rather not do that. It's sort of a case of convenience > > code, the code already exists in Debian and from a security point of > view it > > would be good if the version of that code would match the version of > p7zip > > present in Debian. > > I'm glad to hear you don't want to add embedded code copies, it isn't > often that upstream developers have that opinion. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/caktje6gcrrerokt4w0yd5w-v7xqv8ufxuyk1s3xstxttvah...@mail.gmail.com > >
