lxqt-archiver vs. Arqiver?

[probonopd]

Are

• https://github.com/tsujan/Arqiver
• https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-archiver

somehow related? Are both under active development, are there any philosophical differences between the two?
Which one would you recommend us to ship in helloSystem?

[tsujan]

lxqt-archiver belongs to LXQt and is a Qt fork of engrampa — its core code is based on GLib and it uses libfm-qt — while Arqiver is an DE-independent, Qt-based front-end for bsdtar (as it's called in Linux), 7z and gzip. They're both under active development: lxqt-archiver by the LXQt team (me included) and Arqiver by me.

Their main difference is that lxqt-archiver uses GLib to handle the command-line options of its backends, while Arqiver does it by using Qt. Because of that, Arqiver has a much more compact code.

[probonopd]

Thanks. From this description it is clear to me that I like Arqiver better.

[tsujan]

Arqiver should work under *BSD as it is — it even has an extra option under *BSD — but if you encounter any problem, please tell me!

[probonopd]

Has been working well for me:

Now need to get it into Filer...
helloSystem/Filer#54

[tsujan]

Now need to get it into Filer...

In LXQt, we use this (inside /usr/share/libfm-qt/archivers.list):

[arqiver]
create=arqiver --sa %U
extract=arqiver --sx %U
extract_to=arqiver --ax %U
mime_types=application/x-xz-compressed-tar;application/x-lzma-compressed-tar;application/x-bzip-compressed-tar;application/x-bzip;application/x-tar;application/x-compressed-tar;application/zip;application/gzip;image/svg+xml-compressed;application/x-gzpdf;application/bzip;application/x-7z-compressed;application/vnd.debian.binary-package;application/x-archive;application/x-cpio;application/x-rpm;application/x-source-rpm;application/x-cd-image;application/x-raw-disk-image;application/x-xar;application/x-java-archive;
supports_uris=true

[tsujan]

Which one would you recommend us to ship in helloSystem?

If you've forked libfm-qt as an independent library in helloSystem, you could also fork lxqt-archiver. Otherwise, I think forking of Arqiver might be easier.

However, please note that lxqt-archiver supports more archive formats. For example, I included application/x-zstd-compressed-tar in both Arqiver and lxqt-archiver but added application/zstd only to lxqt-archiver (didn't find it worth the extra code that was needed by Arqiver). I think there are other examples too.