wimlib

wimlib hardly ever uses temporary files, so choosing a different temporary directory wouldn't actually matter.


Except it DOES need it for --rebuild or wimoptimize. This lack of an ability to specify temp directory does matter because in a backup type scenario it currently is requiring roughly ...

For example, I have a.wim and b.wim, both have 1 index, how could I copy the content of a.wim index 1 to b.wim index1?
For example:
a.wim contains test/test1.txt,test/test2.txt two files
b.wim contains foo/bar.txt one file
Merge the content of a.wim to /a folder of b.wim
b.wim now contains a/test ...

So the hardest part is to find out the beginning and end of each file, and its compression algorithm?

Is it possible to dump files from incomplete wim files ?
For example, run wimlib capture to create a wim file and terminate wimlib during the process.
This creates a broken wim file but it should contain some files of the original directory.
It seems that metadata of these files are missing.
Is it ...

It seems that wimlib used too many GCC and CLANG specific functions, macros and stuff like typeof() and __attribute__.
A port to MSVC should replace these stuff to MSVC specific alternatives, which is theoretically possible but requires a lot of work.
It seems that alignment is broken on msvc. Will ...

Hello, I would like to use wimlib in a open-source project, is it allowed by wimlib's license agree agreement? If so, what kind of projects may I be allowed to use wimlib?