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Closed 4 years ago

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#60746 closed request (fixed)

Request: wimlib

Reported by: ParityError Owned by: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Port: wimlib

Description

Homepage: https://wimlib.net Git: git clone git://wimlib.net/wimlib

wimlib is an open source, cross-platform library for creating, extracting, and modifying Windows Imaging (WIM) archives. WIM is a file archiving format, somewhat comparable to ZIP (and many other file archiving formats); but unlike ZIP, it allows storing various Windows-specific metadata, allows storing multiple "images" in a single archive, automatically deduplicates all file contents, and supports optional solid compression to get a better compression ratio. wimlib and its command-line frontend wimlib-imagex provide a free and cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's WIMGAPI, ImageX, and DISM.

Among other things, wimlib:

Provides fast and reliable file archiving on Windows and on UNIX-like systems such as Mac OS X and Linux. Allows users of non-Windows operating systems to read and write Windows Imaging (WIM) files. Supports correct archiving of files on Windows-style filesystems such as NTFS without making common mistakes such as not properly handling ACLs, file attributes, links, and named data streams.

Allows deployment of Windows operating systems from non-Windows operating systems such as Linux. Provides independent, high quality open source compressors and decompressors for several compression formats used by Microsoft which are not as well known as more open formats, and are prone to be re-used in different applications and file formats (not just WIM).

wimlib is distributed either as a source tarball (for UNIX/Linux), or as ready-to-use binaries (for Windows XP and later). The software consists of a C library along with the wimlib-imagex command-line frontend and its associated documentation.

Change History (5)

comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Keywords: tools archive management windows removed
Port: wimlib added

comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Owner: set to ryandesign
Status: newaccepted

comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Resolution: fixed
Status: acceptedclosed

In 3a3d714386604dabc730f68fba13cdc67db0baee/macports-ports (master):

wimlib: New port, version 1.13.2

Closes: #60746

comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

In dd00ffe7ca5f9274032c8ba8e8c28b1e87c3f42b/macports-ports (master):

mumps: Adjust whitespace to conform to modeline

Closes: #60746

comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

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