[haiku-development] Re: 7zip

I've updated ticket #2014 with instructions on how to get and make
7za, which is the all-in-one command line expander/compressor for
7zip.

Supported formats:
    * Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
    * Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO,
RPM, DEB and NSIS

So I suspect if an expander rule were added for these, 7za would
enable unarchiving all of these? Not sure that I would ever need to
access any of those though.  I've been using 7za in a bash script to
compress my vmware images that I build on my home pc, as it will
crunch a 1.8GB haiku image with dev tools and extras down to 55mb,
which then allows me to download a much smaller file than even zip
would have done.
For now I'm only suggesting we add the .7z format to the
ExpanderRules.cpp, that diff is attached to ticket #2014.

-scottmc

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