Okay, I’m confused... > On Jan 12, 2025, at 6:39 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > [..] > On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >> New version updates, it is up to you to decide if it should be in RC2 >> (or at least downloadable via fdnpkg) >> >> 7zdec: 24.09, https://github.com/dajhorn/retro7zip/releases/ (see below) > > Yes, I think this should get updated for RC2. It's a version update by > the maintainer. The package info from 7zdec 24.08+1 (in RC1) is here: > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.4/pkg-html/7zdec.html > > 7-Zip 24.09+2 for DOS includes a DOS binary plus source code: > https://github.com/dajhorn/retro7zip/releases/tag/24.09%2B2_dos >
We have 7ZDEC [1], which is a “small, standalone decompressor for 7-Zip archives.” It includes the executable: 7ZDEC.EXE We have P7ZIP (aka 7-ZIP) [2], which is "a port 7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio.” It includes the executables: P7ZIP.EXE, P7ZIPR.EXE Then there is the suggested update provided by Darik called retro7zip [3], which is "7-Zip for DOS and Windows 95.” It provides these executables: 7ZA.EXE, 7ZM.EXE and 7ZR.EXE This is definitely NOT JUST an update to the existing 7zDec package. Nor is it directly an update to the existing P7ZIP package. Without digging deeply into this, it appears to me that it is an alternate version/port of 7-ZIP and not just an update to one of existing packages. I am not saying we do not include retro7zip. I am only saying it is not actually an update to what we already have. So, IDK. Jerome [1] https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/archiver/7zdec <https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/archiver/7zdec> [2] https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/archiver/p7zip <https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/archiver/p7zip> [3] https://github.com/dajhorn/retro7zip <https://github.com/dajhorn/retro7zip>
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