From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 8968@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8968: arc-mode 7z writing support
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:56:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vcvcn4uw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r561nt9y.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:08:57 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
>> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:09:51 +0300
>>
>> As reported in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/136578/focus=136670
>> on cygwin the program name is "p7zip". But I can't confirm this fact,
>> so I'm closing this feature request at its current state with the
>> program name "7z".
>
> In fact, I think any GNU/Linux system that cares about avoiding
> non-free software will have only p7zip, not 7z. That's because
> current releases of 7z are not Free Software, whereas p7zip uses the
> free-software subset of the 7z algorithms.
All GNU/Linux systems will have only p7zip, as that is the ported
version of 7-zip. 7z is only available for Windows, and comes with two
command line binaries - 7za.exe, which is Free Software, and 7z.exe
which is not (due to unRAR support).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-08 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-30 21:47 bug#8968: arc-mode 7z writing support Juri Linkov
2011-07-01 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-04 22:22 ` Juri Linkov
2011-07-08 0:09 ` Juri Linkov
2011-07-08 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-08 13:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-08 18:38 ` Juri Linkov
2011-07-08 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-08 20:20 ` Juri Linkov
2011-07-09 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-09 11:34 ` Jason Rumney
2011-07-09 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-09 11:26 ` Jason Rumney
2011-07-08 15:56 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2011-07-08 18:39 ` Juri Linkov
2011-07-08 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-09 11:20 ` Jason Rumney
2011-07-09 22:27 ` Juri Linkov
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