Hello, I noticed the package app-arch/p7zip is becoming quite old, since the current version 16.02 was released in May 2016, and since when the current version 18.05 was released end of April 2018. Unfortunately, I was not able to put my hands on the newer source code of p7zip from sourceforge, the last entry is actually the version 16.02; however, the source code for 7-zip — which seams to be the same stuff, right? — is available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/files/7-Zip/ Do you think those are related? Why isn't the main p7zip program updated as the 7-Zip version? Another request concerns its dependency to x11-libs/wxGTK, do you think it is possible to now use (at will?) the gtk3 flavor? Even with the current USE flag "wxwidgets" activated, I don't have the GUI like I see on Windows, so I have no idea what this USE flag does, actually. I noticed however there is comment related to the executable 7zFM (the file manager executable as I see on Windows), is it a normal modifications? Thanks for support.
p7zip upstream seems mostly dead to me (or very badly run). I'm not sure those sources are correct. I've searched for p7zip in other distros (fedora arch ubuntu) not finding anything past 16.02.
see also https://repology.org/metapackage/p7zip/versions
Version 19.00 was released in February.
Oh, the above seem to be related to 7zip (for Windows), not p7zip (for posix systems). See for the situation re 7zip and pzip this discussion: https://sourceforge.net/p/p7zip/discussion/383043/thread/fa143cf2 . It seems no one is working on p7zip.
This is a better maintained fork and the maintainer now tags releases: https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip https://repology.org/project/p7zip-jinfeihan57/ It may be expedient to switch over to this one.
Fixed repology link, apologies: https://repology.org/project/p7zip-jinfeihan57/versions
Created attachment 682021 [details, diff] Diff to use jinfeihan57's version Quick diff to jinfeihan57 version in case someone wants to do further work. CLI tools do compile and seem to work. I can't finish this and test/version bump GUI, review all the src_prepare for other platforms, or possibly fix patches. The package might also need a different name. I'll also point out that perhaps this is easier/nicer to build via cmake, I easily get functional binaries via the current cmake release building method: cd ./CPP/7zip/CMAKE/ && mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip/blob/master/.github/workflows/release.yml Maybe changing to a simpler ebuild doing this might be an idea.
7-zip now supports linux: https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/cec5e63147/
I'm glad this is getting more of an official port (the p7zip stuff being kinda defunct now). That said, I don't think I want to be the maintainer of the new package (because it should be a NEW package, not a bump to this one). I would be happy to proxy-maintiain it on the gentoo side if you there's an ebuild though.
Is there any plan to switch to a more active fork https://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip ? ArchLinux does that.
added 17.05 from p7zip-project
