{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BOINC/boinc/issues/829","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BOINC/boinc/issues/829/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BOINC/boinc/issues/829/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BOINC/boinc/issues/829/events","html_url":"https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/829","id":56198884,"number":829,"title":"Requesting 7zip support in BOINC","user":{"login":"romw","id":985772,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/985772?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw","html_url":"https://github.com/romw","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":{"login":"davidpanderson","id":985729,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/985729?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidpanderson","html_url":"https://github.com/davidpanderson","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidpanderson/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidpanderson/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidpanderson/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidpanderson/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidpanderson/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidpanderson/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidpanderson/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidpanderson/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/davidpanderson/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"milestone":null,"comments":13,"created_at":"2015-02-02T05:52:30Z","updated_at":"2015-02-02T19:59:41Z","closed_at":"2015-02-02T05:52:41Z","body":"**Reported by Ageless on 18 Feb 37804563 16:26 UTC**\nFor Hydrogen@Home we're busy trying out several ways to get 7zip archives to decompress through BOINC. So far without success. \r\n\r\nAsking through email, Rom answered we'd best make use of the wrapper application. That's all fine, but doesn't the wrapper decompress natively to a slot? And then when the wrapper app ends, doesn't BOINC delete the contents of the slot? We're trying to keep the decompressed files in the project folder. \r\n\r\nI managed to get an answer from Carl Christensen (he's still alive :-)).[execs across platforms isn't possible with the way BOINC is setup.  If you like the 7zip algorithm (which I've never heard of) I suggest making a \"boinc_7zip\" library similar to how I did 'boinc_zip' -- I'm sure David Anderson would welcome this addition to the BOINC CVS tree.  My other suggestion is to use the built-in web compression (I think it's mod_deflate in apache) to do \"transparent\" gzip compression (the details are on the wiki -- basically when I redid the BOINC networking layer two years ago using libcurl this featre was made possible).  I'm afraid I am all tied up to do any BOINC programming now.''\r\n\r\nSo the question is, can someone make a boinc_7zip library for integration into BOINC?  Would other projects be interested in this? \r\n\r\nIf you're unfamiliar with 7zip's capabilities, read [http://www.7-zip.org/ its site]([br]]\r\n''self-extracting) or [Wikipedia on 7zip](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip). It does compress better than zip or gzip."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BOINC/boinc/issues/comments/72526306","html_url":"https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/829#issuecomment-72526306","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BOINC/boinc/issues/829","id":72526306,"user":{"login":"romw","id":985772,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/985772?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw","html_url":"https://github.com/romw","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/romw/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-02-02T19:59:41Z","updated_at":"2015-02-02T19:59:41Z","body":"**Commented by Nicolas on 19 Aug 39156698 05:20 UTC**\navoiding skew of ticket-fixing stats for 6.8"}}