Cbr - rar support?

[migube]

Hello again :)
in the description you mention cbr, but from a quick test & looking at the code, only cbz-zip atm ?
Any plans to add the rar tools?
tx!

[Lightjohn]

Hi :)
Indeed I said CBR but might not be true...
CBR is rar and rar mean some licenses preventing open source libraries to exist.
So adding cbr support would mean I rely on external tool libraries already installed and they will not be compatible with existing code sadly.

[migube]

can u use import rarfile ?

[Lightjohn]

From the documentation:
https://rarfile.readthedocs.io/api.html#module-rarfile
For decompression to work, either unrar or unar tool must be in PATH.
Which for windows will not be very intuitive or will lead to more bugs...
This lib is better than the other I was looking but it's not pure python so it's complicated
Edit: also it's only for reading and not writing :(

[migube]

yes, it would be ideal to convert to cbz :) (coming from https://github.com/binarynonsense/comic-book-reader?tab=readme-ov-file)

[Lightjohn]

sadly as there is no easy way to integrate rar in my code I would juste recommend something like that:

unar file.cbr -o out && zip -r file.cbz out

But that's sadly a bit too much for my old small library :)

[migube]

ok no worries.
note another one could be https://wummel.github.io/patool/

[migube]

I played a bit with patool and quite fast.
Though issues with urf8 (accents, ....) but well :)