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From: | Antonio Diaz Diaz |
Subject: | Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: Freeing Unrar |
Date: | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:22:42 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050905 |
Rubén Rodríguez Pérez wrote:
As I understand, it does not limit the possibility of using it as a reference for a free implementation of the *de*compression algorithm. As an example, the zip and unzip programs come from different source packages. INAL, but I see no problem in creating a GNU unrar program, as long as the code from unrarsrc is not used, just the concepts.This is more or less what I am already trying to do, but even extracting the concepts is not easy. Unrar uses 2 decompression algorithms, a virtual machine, several filters, a lot of headers, encription, etc.What's the status on this? Are you still on it? If you are having trouble maybe we can do a call for help.
The status is too little time for too many projects. Moreover, I doubt complete RAR decompression can be implemented this way with a reasonable effort.
I have not abandoned the project, but because of the difficulty in obtaining results, I am giving it a low priority.
Regards, Antonio.
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