[Backalaika-developers] Compression resources

[Nando F. <nan...@ma...>]

Dear Backalaika developers,

First of all, #Develop 1.0.1 has been released:
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/download/
Uninstall 1.0 before installing 1.0.1.

Even though you people have been too quiet recently, here is some food 
for thought:


SharpZipLib FAQ
http://wiki.icsharpcode.net/default.aspx/SharpDevelop.SharpZipLibraryFAQ

SharpZipLib forum
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=16&CAT_ID=8&Forum_Title=SharpZipLib


All of these old compression algorythms (zip, gzip, bzip2) are fine for 
most backup purposes (and they can be fast). But it would be great to 
offer more advanced compression too. The powerful 7-zip -- with a 
compatible license (LGPL) -- comes to mind:

7-zip
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/

This little open source app may not have the greatest user interface 
yet, but it already supports 11 compression formats!

Using a newer compression format like 7-zip might even solve some modern 
problems such as encoding of filenames in Unicode, having zip files 
longer than 2 GB etc.

Only problem here is that 7-zip is written in C++. But they have 
mentioned they want to start ports now... It would be cool if we could 
help them with a C# port.

Nando