[AnthonBerg]

Here’s a fork of the Windows compression tool 7-Zip which has LZ4 support baked in along with some other useful algorithms – the repo has a good comparison of them: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd/

(Linking to this more for the overview than the Windows tool in itself.)

[Jonnax]

The frustrating thing about 7zip is that whilst it's opensource, a single author just does code drops.

So there's a bunch of forks with useful features that'll never be adopted because there's no collaboration.

At least that's what I could tell when I looked into it

[nyanpasu64]

I liked http://www.e7z.org/ for its UI improvements, but it was last updated in 2016 and misses out on several security bug patches.

[rav]

It sounds like it needs a fork to combine all the forks, similar to what Neovim did as a fork of Vim.

[0-_-0]

Would that be like... a reverse fork? A defork? A korf?

[diggernet]

Oh heck, let's just call it a spoon.

[OldHand2018]

Nice. Really, anything that had solid support would be nice. My company delivers data to customers and our customers use all sorts of operating systems. Plain Zip seems to be our lowest common denominator because we can’t count on our customers being tech-savvy or having an IT department.

I really, really, really wish there were more compression standards that were supported on a wide variety of platforms. “Obscure” software package A just doesn’t cut it.