[ofek]

For those who are unaware, there is another project [1] that tracks upstream which adds support for various codecs like Zstandard. Many folks (such as myself) opt to install their releases instead.

[1]: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd

[yashau]

I prefer NanaZip[1]. It has all the features of the ZS and NSIS fork while being fully compatible with the new Windows context menus.

[1]: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

[doubled112]

Perhaps a tangent, but until now, I've only seen or used "codec" in the audio/video sense. While somehow awkward, it seems this would also be correct, since it also compresses and decompresses. Video codec but archive format.

Sometimes you see a word used a new way and wonder if you've just been wrong all these years.

[heavyset_go]

The defining factor isn't compression/decompression, it's just encoding.

You'll see codec used in things like text encoding.

[deaddodo]

While technically true, the term has been largely co-opted by the A/V realm. It’s pretty rare to hear outside of the context.

[diroussel]

Rare for people who don't deal with encoding and decoding maybe.

To be clear the codec implements the compression (or other encoding) algorithm. So when talking about codec's we mean the implementation. But when talking about the algorithm, we are talking about the standard of encoding the encoder or decoder implements.

[deaddodo]

> Rare for people who don't deal with encoding and decoding maybe.

No, rare in general.

It's a layman's co-opting, and laymen outnumber specialists in every field.

[heavyset_go]

You commonly encounter the term when you want to do bytes to string conversions and vice versa on Python: https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html

[chronial]

Note that the official 7z build supports zstd compression since version 24: https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/releases/tag/24.05

[abhinavk]

Only decompression, not compression.

[jccalhoun]

There is also NanaZip which aims to be a more modern Windows application and I think also incorporates the additions of the 7zs fork https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

[_imnothere]

Maybe it's just me but I got weird feelings seeing 7-Zip-zstd repo having more stars than it's upstream.

[abhinavk]

Github is just a mirror used to post sources of releases and track bugs. It has only 11 commits so far.