[ITP] p7zip

[Charles Wilson]

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio in its native 
compression mode (LZMA).  However, it supports a number of other 
compression methods (zip, gzip, bzip2, etc).  7-Zip was originally 
developed as a Windows GUI application: p7zip is a cross-platform 
(mostly unix) port, supporting linux, solaris, MacOSX, and...cygwin.

One fly in the ointment is the default build includes RAR support, whose 
source code is released only under a non-OSI license.  I followed 
debian's procedure, and disabled all RAR support in this build -- 
otherwise, it would conflict with Cygwin's license.

http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/p7zip-4.47-1.tar.bz2
http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/p7zip-4.47-1-src.tar.bz2
http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/p7zip.hint

category: Archive
requires: cygwin
sdesc: "A file archiver with very high compression ratios."
ldesc: "p7zip is the Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that archives 
with very high compression ratios.  It supports packing/unpacking 7z, 
zip, gzip bzip2, and tar archives.  It supports unpacking of cab, iso, 
arj, lzh, chm, z, cpio, rpm, deb, and nsis archives.  This version does 
NOT support rar archives."

--
Chuck