From: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 17663@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#17663: 24.4.50; arc-mode.el has unrar-free hard-coded
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:06:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tdg9knm.fsf@petton.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83io6sb4aw.fsf@gnu.org>
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
>> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:18:14 +0200
>>
>> I just installed a patch in master to use unar and lsar.
>>
>> My patch removes the use of the "unrar-free" binary completely as 1) it
>> is no longer available in Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian and 2) it has been
>> reported not to work properly, but I guess that's up for discussion.
>
> Given the troubled history of the Free Software programs available to
> access RAR archives, and its various format versions, I'd prefer that
> we had more than one solution for RAR. Having just one hard-coded
> program sounds like a near-term maintenance headache. Other
> possibilities include unrar-free, GNA's unrar, and bsdtar from
> libarchive. I think we should make this more future-proof. Nicolas,
> would you like to work on that?
Would adding support for (GNA) unrar be enough for you?
If so, I'll gladly add it.
Nico
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-30 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-02 9:05 bug#17663: 24.4.50; arc-mode.el has unrar-free hard-coded Dieter Deyke
2014-06-02 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-02 14:40 ` Dieter Deyke
2015-09-30 8:18 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-30 8:20 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-09-30 9:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-30 10:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-30 12:06 ` Nicolas Petton [this message]
2015-09-30 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-05 11:19 ` Nicolas Petton
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