FreeArc

[Bulat Ziganshin]

making arc.exe 20% large just to support very rare tornado modes is overkill, imho. even lzma uses less than 100 kb of code

[Bulat Ziganshin]

>>1525 $compressed=Quick-and-dirty compression for already compressed files, improving overall speed/compression ratio
>I still find "Quick-and-dirty" too informal.

can someone propose more formal words stating the same? (i'm using faster compression algo for already compressed files in order to cut overall compression times). "Improved handling of already compressed files" looks less informative for me

* "FreeArc temporary files were found. Delete them?" should be a Yes/No dialog instead of OK/Cancel.
* "Open .tar.gz and similar archives in one step" is broken (tested on .tar.bz2 and .tar.gz).
* "Up" button in filelist could have some icon (something like: )
* Decompression of multi-part archive doesn't change archive numbers to current in window title, keeps first the whole time (part numbers either could be changed during the operation or not shown at all)
* There is no error when all parts of multi-part RAR archive are missing from some point. E.g. total is 50 parts, I have first 40 parts, it decompresses quietly and just ends there (could be made a setting whether to want remaining parts or not)

recorded in my to-do list

[Bulat Ziganshin]

new alpha version:

• Compression page: added more settings; speeds measured on i7-2600
• Descript.ion: added description for all files in the bin\ directory
• Fixed bug in displaying progress indicator (it was jumped lower sometimes)
• Improved tooltips 1125, 1227, 1176: if you manage any translation, please update it to match arc.english.txt text

[TeLeMan]

new alpha version:

• Compression page: added more settings; speeds measured on i7-2600
• Descript.ion: added description for all files in the bin\ directory
• Fixed bug in displaying progress indicator (it was jumped lower sometimes)
• Improved tooltips 1125, 1227, 1176: if you manage any translation, please update it to match arc.english.txt text

freearc.ini:

compression=0112 Very fast: -m2
compression=0127 HDD-speed: -m1

should be:

compression=0127 HDD-speed: -m2
compression=0527 Instant: -m1

[Bulat Ziganshin]

thank you. i forgot to update freearc.ini

03:53: thanks again

[Bulat Ziganshin]

In order to implement "experimental methods" in the Compression dialog, i plan to implement the following new options:

-mc[GROUPS][:]OPERATION

where GROUPS may be empty or list of compression groups, $default means the default group. Examples are:

• $obj
• $default
• $default,$obj

Optional ':' is just a syntax sugar

And OPERATION may be one of the following:

• '-$group' or '$group-' means "remove $group from compression definition". Already implemented, f.e. -mc-$bmp
• '-method' or 'method-' means "remove method from compression definition". Already implemented, f.e. -mc-rep
• '+method' or 'method+' means "add method at the head of every compression chain", f.e. -mc+precomp042:t-j
• 'method1->method2' means "replace method1 with method2", f.e. -mc:rep->srep:mem256mb

GROUPS may be used to limit OPERATION to the specified groups, f.e. -mc$default,$obj:+precomp042:t-j

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Using these options, FreeArc will implement "exprerimental compressor" checkboxes in the following way:

lzma:1gb: -mc:lzma->lzma:max:512mb
exe2: -mc:exe->dispack070
srep: -mc:rep->srep:mem256mb
precomp: -mc$default,$obj:+precomp042:t-j
intense: -mc$default,$obj:+precomp042:intense:t-j
jpeg: -mc$default,$obj:+precomp042

(of course, intense+jpeg will give us precomp042:intense)

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Looking for your critique for the option itself and "exprerimental compressors" deciphering

[Bulat Ziganshin]

one of users have started Portuguese Standard translation for 0.666

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Portuguese Standard translation for 0.666 by Nuno Rego added to http://freearc.org/Download.aspx

[Sotho Tal Ker]

What happened to the SVN repository?

[Bulat Ziganshin]

i switched to hg, and hg can't provide access to only part of directories in repository. so there is no live vcs now, but sources are available here: http://freearc.org/Download.aspx