mcm
MCM file compressor (by mathieuchartier)
p7zip
A new p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements (forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ AND https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/). (by p7zip-project)
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| mcm | p7zip | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 13 | |
| 105 | 735 | |
| - | 2.2% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 6 years ago | 7 months ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
mcm
Posts with mentions or reviews of mcm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-15.
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In need of crazy compression
mcm 0.83 : https://github.com/mathieuchartier/mcm/tree/v0.83
- Is there any research as to what's the best way to compress each file type?
- Don't Use RAR
- Is 7zip with lzma2 the best tradeoff between compression speed and decompression speed?
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Help me out with some compression tips
A good trade-off is mcm : it uses SSE2 and MMX. It is not as good as zpaq, but it is better than LZMA2 (7zip) and really faster than zpaq. https://github.com/mathieuchartier/mcm
p7zip
Posts with mentions or reviews of p7zip.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-20.
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Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
nearly every main distro I am aware of has both available. The reason you still see p7zip is because the CLI incompatibilities vs the newer 7z/7zip executables and the general licensing issues. Most users of "old p7zip" are actually using the actively maintained https://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip which is updated, supporting unix permissions and zstd and so on.
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7-zip 22.00 – APFS, Posix TAR, high precision timestamps
Thank you for pointing this out! This is the source of much confusion. Although Arch for example uses https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip which seems to be reasonably maintained?
- Ark and 7-zip
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Replace p7zip with upstream 7-Zip
Then you can compile p7zip from source: $ mkdir p7zip-git $ cd p7zip-git $ git clone https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip .
- Don't Use RAR
- TIL there's a fork of the unmaintained p7zip port of 7-Zip
- I can't compress in 7zip with Ark and p7zip
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will arch replace p7zip with normal 7-zip?
April 4th was the latest release. Had some commits in May. I think it is active.
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Why is 7z so outdated?
I think the point is, the '7z' at 17.04 available in Arch Linux's repo is actually p7zip, the development of which is independent of 7-zip. So comparison of the version number is meaningless (if I am right). Also, p7zip 17.04 is released in April this year, not 2017, according to its release page
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7-Zip 21.0 alpha introduces native Linux support
this comment might clarify that.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mcm and p7zip you can also consider the following projects:
precomp-cpp - Precomp, C++ version - further compress already compressed files
7-Zip-zstd - 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard
fast-lzma2 - Fast LZMA2 Library
NanaZip - The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience
srep - Source for srep from the FreeArc project. This is not my code, I am merely uploading it for preservation purposes.
7z - Because 7-zip source code was in a 7z archive [mirror]
bzip3 - A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2.
libarchive - Multi-format archive and compression library
reedsolomon - Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding in Go
engrampa - A file archiver for MATE
par2cmdline - Official repo for par2cmdline and libpar2