> And developer of p7zip port didn't show any activity last 4-5 years.

I guess that would be why. I, too, assumed we had an actively maintained Linux port, but if the maintainer isn't doing much these days, a version closer to upstream would be great.

The 7zip author by his own admission does not use Linux, though, so I'd be curious if p7zip might actually be more performant on Linux.

> the maintainer isn't doing much these days,

Is there much to do?

It works but it's fork of 5yo code base and upstream had several releases in the meantime

Does this fix the issue of 7zip not supporting unix file permissions? I recall that was the main issue everyone hated the 7zip linux port.

I don't know the answer to your question, just adding that you can work around that by using tar to preserve ownership, permissions, extended attributes, selinux contexts, then use 7zip on that tar file. This can all be done in pipes in one command line.

At that point, you might as well just use xz and skip 7z

it's by a different author.

In the site that you linked:

>p7zip is the command line version of 7-Zip for Linux / Unix, made by an independent developer.

In the link for this post:

>It's first version of my port of 7-Zip to Linux.

>That port of 7-Zip is similar to p7zip, but it's not identical to p7zip.

Yeah, commented before fully reading the description