Request for Features/Ideas: A std.archive package

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 20 May 2015 at 12:19:07 UTC, Liam McSherry wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 May 2015 at 08:26:11 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> http://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-5.2.7.tar.gz why do you 
>> need reverse engineering?
>
> UnRAR only extracts RAR archives

That's what all 3rd party archivers do. Only rarlab software can 
create rar archives.

> If UnRAR-derived code was in Phobos, everyone that used Phobos 
> would be required to accept the above licence, or remove the 
> RAR archiving module from their system.

I guess, the code was requested to be written. How to distribute 
it is a different question.