CoffeeArc

[Vacon]

Hello everyone,

I just stumbled upon that one on maximumcompression.com's guestbook:

Hi,

I wrote a generic open source archiver that can easily be used with almost any command-line file compression tool.
I hope you can put it to good use (e.g. to test tools or add more usability to it).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/coffeearc/

Andreas

Best regards!

[Vacon]

Hello everyone,

just for the record, I tested (briefly) CoffeeArc with these settings (only copied arc.exe and arc.ini to CoffeeArc's profiles directory):

<profile name = "FreeArc" version="26.03.09">

	<description>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            FreeArc 26.03.09 - Copyright (C) Bulat Ziganshin
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FreeArc is an OpenSource file compressor by Bulat Ziganshin:

	</description>

	<gui name="Kompression" type="combo">
		<option label="Maximum">
			<replace key="%model" with="-m9x"/>
		</option>
		<option label="Normal" default="yes">
			<replace key="%model" with="-m4 -s64m"/>
		</option>
		<option label="Hoch">
			<replace key="%model" with="-m5 -s128m"/>
		</option>
		<option label="Schnell">
			<replace key="%model" with="-m3 -s32m"/>
		</option>
		<option label="Sehr schnell">
			<replace key="%model" with="-m2 -s16m"/>
		</option>
		<option label="HDD-Geschwindigkeit">
			<replace key="%model" with="-m1 -s8m"/>
		</option>
		<option label="Keine Kompression">
			<replace key="%model" with="-m0"/>
		</option>
	</gui>

	<solid/>
	
	<skip>zip,rar,tar.gz,7z</skip>

	<checksum/>

	<encode file="arc" params="a %model %out %in">
		<decode params="x %in %out"></decode>
	</encode>

</profile>

These are the results:

7z466a [directory] -> 2,96 MB (3.110.153 Bytes) (unpacked 7z466a.exe)
7z466a-max -> 921 KB (943.322 Bytes)
7z466a-normal.crc -> 935 KB (957.774 Bytes)
7z466a-veryfast -> 1,08 MB (1.137.257 Bytes)
7z466a-none -> 2,98 MB (3.127.599 Bytes)

Best regards!

[besting]

Hi,

nice to see that it works. I just released a new version (0.52a) which now supports pipes. That means lesser temporary files for those tools that can read/write from/to the system streams. The profiles for CCM and a modified version of Slug X are already adjusted.
After creating an archive, some compression timings are now displayed.

And, I relocated the project to http://forge.simplana.de/projects/show/coffeearc

Andreas

[Vacon]

Hello everyone,

version 0.55b

Best regards!

[Cyan]

Pretty nice program, indeed.

It takes almost zero effort to get from a command-line file archiver to a more feature-rich GUI. I'm inclined to use it as default GUI for my own binaries.

I wonder if the author reads this forum sometimes, and if it is authorised to suggest some features...

[Bulat Ziganshin]

i think you should use forum/tracker provided at program site. btw, nice site and software running it

[besting]

Hi,

thanks for the feedback! Feature requests and bug reports are of course always welcome. From time to time I follow the posts in this forum, but it would be nice to have these things on the project site.

Andreas

[besting]

Hi all,

for the more intensive discussions I added a developers forum at http://forge.simplana.de/projects/show/coffeearc

But as I said, I sometimes check here and for the little things you don't want to register - feel free to post where you want

@Cyan: I just tested lzp2 (Apr 23 2009) with CoffeeArc (0.53 and 0.55) and had trouble uncompressing an archive ("File ... is not a LZP2 archive!"). My system is a Athlon X2, 2GB ram, Vista 32. Any ideas?

Andreas

[Cyan]

This is most probably a bug in the decoder of the version bundled with CoffeeArc, as opposed to the version downloadable as a command-line only tool.
I will track down the issue, and make you aware of the result.

Regards

[besting]

Hi all!

For those who want to give it a try, I released a new experimental version that now supports multi-threading:

Version 0.60a

Andreas

[besting]

I just released a new version:
Release notes

have fun!

Andreas

[Cyan]

Thanks Andreas

It seems performance has also improved quite a lot since last version, as there is no more "large preparation delay" noticeable.
(or maybe it is OS change from XP to Seven...).

Integration with external file-only command-line compressor is still a breathe thanks to xml import.

minor suggestion : there are some nice report on time and speed at the end of compression process, but none regarding compression rate nor resulting compressed size. Is that complex to do ?

Regards

[besting]

This should be no problem. This information is in fact already calculated but only displayed in the status line when you open the archive afterwards.

I will consider this in the next release, thanks for the suggestion.

Andreas

[Vacon]

Hello everyone,

new version online. Change-log

Best regards!

[Vacon]

Hello everyone,

new version online. Change-log

Best regards!