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#20 Support nested archive file
I have many comic files which are nested zip, 7z or rar. That is, there are several archive files in a archive file.
For example, one of my comic book file is:
Drain.zip
, which contains several zip files represent for each volume:
vol_1.zip, vol_2.zip, vol_3.zip,...
The comic readers I used under Windows platform is support such nested archive file, so I can read them without decompress the file, however, MComix doesn't support it for now. I think it's not rare case for comic fans, so please implement such feature.
Which program do you use on Windows that supports this? I'd be interested to try it out and I'm interested in understanding more about the workflow and user patterns.
Seems like it would be very slow, especially if you mix different archive formats.
Is there a particular pattern of archive format you use? Do you always use one format for the Comic archive and another type to group them together?
I like 2 comic readers on Windows, Hamana and MangaMeeya. Both of them support the feature of nested archive. I think the UI of Hamana is a little bit over, but I feel wonderful when I first use it. You can try them both to get the idea.
It's hard to say the outer archive format is as same as the inner format. One of my archive has RAR as outer and ZIP as inner, and some of others are both 7z for outer and inner. It's really depends on the preference of the comics maker and the group distributor.
From what I have seen, most nested archive are only 2 levels. Top level is the comic title, and the second level is the volumes.
But I also found a few 3 levels archives. The top is the author, or category, or publisher, second is the comic title, and the third level is the volume.
About the speed, I don't feel very slow on nested archive, maybe a little bit slower than others which I cannot feel, but it's acceptable.
UI of nested archive of Hamana
UI of nested archive of MangaMeeya
I just noticed that a patch implementing this feature was added in 0.95.