Comments from osnews.com post about the review

[mouser]

some interesting comments about the review from an osnews.com post:
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=11775

lots of people seem to like izarc (http://www.izarc.org/)

someone else mentioned UltimateZip and lamented it not being in review: http://www.ultimatezip.com/

[Matteo]

Don't worry about what other website say about your review: it is a good article, but it could be even better.
I have some suggestion for an eventual "Take 2" of your article.

1 - When testing archivers, be sure to use the same compression format on any software: in fact, WinRAR, 7-zip, ZipGenius and any other archiver, all have different compression engines that handle almost the same compression formats, but they all have different performances. A test based on ZIP compression and files extraction would be reliable, only because ZIP is handled by all compression utilities.

2 - Write a separated section about which format compresses better among 7-zip, rar, zip and ace; also you should point out that while RARlab doesn't allow third parties developer to make archivers that can compress to RAR, 7-zip is open source and anybody may write a compression software based on this compression format, that will offer rar-like performances, if properly used.

[mouser]

good suggestions.

and from a programmer's perspective, rar is unacceptable for use in code because of licensing.  i'd much rather use zip or 7-zip.  though im told from another programmer that the 7-zip sdk is a mess.  but there are lots of friendly zip libraries so its only a matter of time for 7-zip.

[Matteo]

That's true: 7-zip SDK is a real mess and it is only available for C++ language. But in ZipGenius is coded with Delphi, so how I did that? That's simple to explain: ZipGenius compresses files to 7-zip using the 7za.exe module (Igor Pavlov has authorized me to distribute it - proper copyright is specified ), which is the original 7-zip standalone application for console usage, while files extraction has been achieved by using the C.a.k.e. VCL made by... Joseph Leung, QuickZip's developer
Unfortunately, there is no native Delphi VCL but having one would solve many performance issues. Any volunteer to translate the SDK?