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PeaZip 1.6 - file archiver for Linux and Windows

Submitted by giorgiotani on Tue, 2007-04-10 04:30. Bag of Software
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PeaZip is a cross platform archiver, released under LGPL for Linux and Windows, developed using Lazarus/FreePascal.
Basically it acts as frontend for console archiving utilities, like p7zip and Matt Mahoney's PAQ, supporting many archive formats and offering a wide range of features about archiving, multi-volume spanning, compression and encryption.

The application is focused in speeding up archive definition, allowing to save and import filelists as archive's layout, and to bridging the gap between console and GUI worlds allowing to export most of the jobs as command lines in order to promote the knowledge of the syntax of underlying applications and to speed up script definition.
Linux versions are released as .tar.gz packages containing precompiled, self contained binaries (if on your system a dependency is not satisfied, please follow the instructions of your software package manager to install needed libraries) and also all the needed third part binaries; just extract the package in the path you prefer, even remote or removable, and run peazip binary to start the application.
System integration is possible through .desktop files provided along with simple instructions in /FreeDesktop_integration folder (in the program's path), for all desktop environments following FreeDesktop standards, like Gnome and KDE.

PeaZip project website:
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/

Linux (precompiled binaries) download page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=178996&sel_platform=489

All downloads (including sources, documentation and Windows version):
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=178996

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Basically file-roller. But by Anonymous George (not verified)

Hi, currently PeaZip does

Submitted by giorgiotani on Fri, 2007-04-13 01:37.

Hi, currently PeaZip does not support drag and drop from application's form to system file manager (and vice versa) but it's between the features I would like to add since I too find it important for usability.
As for differences between PeaZip and other archivers, I started writing it because of some features I desired and which were missing or not implemented as I would do in other similar softwares i.e. ability to save/import archive's layout, support to newer algorithms (like PAQ8, QUAD, PEA), the ability to save detailed job logs after operations and to export job definition as command line.
I expecially appreciate the latter function since I tend to prefer command line archiving applications and PeaZip tries to bridge the gap between GUI and console approach, letting to easily compose command lines and save them to be used later, or for learning purpouses, hopefully hinting to users that underlying tools can be far more powerful and flexible spending a little time to learn what they can do beyond the limits of a GUI frontend.

Yes by Anonymous George (not verified)

It may be: drag and drop

Submitted by giorgiotani on Fri, 2007-04-13 07:55.

It may be: drag and drop from/to system file manager basically involves host OS and desktop environment API, so it's not only matter of the will of developers of the given program to support drag/drop with fm on a given target platform.
However, I'll continue looking how to improve this aspect which, I belive, is fundamental for enhancing usability.

That seams to be a major problem by Anonymous George (not verified)

I'm not saying it's a flaw

Submitted by giorgiotani on Tue, 2007-04-17 03:33.

I'm not saying it's a flaw of Gtk/Gnome, or of other OS/desktop managers platforms where the application run.
Being drag and drop to/from system a communication between the app and the system (and/or the desktop manager) for each platform, developers can do only things which API writers allowed to do, and in the specific way they let things to be done on the given platform.
That leads drag and drop to be a function which is difficult to keep consistent between ports to different platforms, so I pushed it back in favour of features I could offer consistently on all supported platforms.
And, once implemented, it can be based on a different codebase, and have different limitations, on different platforms, depending on the API offered by each target os/desktop manager, because they are the subjects involved in drag and drop as the dragged object leaves the application.

Hum, no by Anonymous George (not verified)