Karfax2
21st January 2006 21:22 UTC

RAR compression in future. It is possible?
In the future you plan to add RAR compression mathod?

For many files with RAR method is possible to receive the greater compression.

For exemple, I have programm - 58 files, 9.12 Mb.
LZMA compression (ultra, solid) - 1.92 Mb
RAR compression (maximum, solid) - 1.66 Mb.

Comm@nder21
21st January 2006 21:25 UTC

don't think so, because of license conflicts.

{_trueparuex^}
21st January 2006 23:41 UTC

And why to bother since, lzma haves (most of the time) much better compression ratio anyway.

DrO
22nd January 2006 01:58 UTC

rar decompression is free and source is available. compression however needs to be paid for and due to the nature of being an OSS project, i highly doubt there'd be the funding to ever do this. like {_trueparuex^} says, lzma is generally better anyway.

-daz

{_trueparuex^}
24th January 2006 11:45 UTC

Or at least it should be. I am not so sure anymore if this is the case in NSIS, after I saw this topic. http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=236126

DrO
24th January 2006 13:16 UTC

that's only because the modified lzma code in nsis is from an older branch of the lzma sdk and doesn't support the recently introduced higher levels of compression. maybe kichik will look into this, dunno heh

-daz

kichik
24th January 2006 18:34 UTC

Just to confirm this, RAR will only be added to NSIS if opens up its source code.