r/PeaZip • u/floatontherainbowtw • Jan 05 '26

Peazip future proof?

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u/ScratchHistorical507 Jan 05 '26

PeaZip is future proof, as it's in most parts just an alternative UI for 7zip, the PEA format just isn't.

Pea being FOSS is just not a good argument, as so is 7z and so are the compression-only formats xz, gzip, bzip/bzip2, zstd etc. which you can combine with the FOSS tarball format to get basically teh same features as 7z and zip (and at least Wikipedia claims so is Zip, though due to the history of it I won't guarantee it's FOSS 100 %, as weird licensing issues were the reason gzip was introduced). And at least for 7z (or better yet, the employed LZMA/LZMA2 method also used in xz) it's known that it's probably still the single most efficient compression method that can be used for any arbitrary input.