[Bug 260866] archivers/7-zip: 7zip vs p7zip

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Max Brazhnikov <makc at FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Max Brazhnikov <makc at FreeBSD.org> ---
Hi folks,

p7zip is outdated unofficial port of 7-zip. Recently the author of 7-zip has
released sources for console version [1], which is now available in the ports
tree as archivers/7-zip. I mush say there is also an attempt to revive p7zip
development [2], however it lags behind original 7-zip and seems unlikely to
catch up in near future. Since your ports use p7zip I encourage you to check
7-zip and probably switch your ports to it.

For now archivers/7-zip installs single binary 7zz to avoid conflict with
p7zip, but this can be changed, if we decide switch everything to
archivers/7-zip. Alternatively, we may adjust USE=7z to handle both 7-zip
and p7zip depending on user preference.

1. https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/cec5e63147/
2. https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip

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