RAR compression in future. It is possible?

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Karfax2January 21, 2006 at 7:22 PM#

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@nder21January 21, 2006 at 7:25 PM#

don't think so, because of license conflicts.

{_trueparuex^}January 21, 2006 at 9:41 PM#

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

DrOJanuary 21, 2006 at 11:58 PM#

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^}January 24, 2006 at 9:45 AM#

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

DrOJanuary 24, 2006 at 11:16 AM#

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

kichikJanuary 24, 2006 at 4:34 PM#

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