wimlib

I'd just like to say a very big thank you to synchronicity/Eric.

I am the author of two winbuilder projects that can be used to build a customised Windows Preinstallation Environment (a Windows Live distro) within a matter of minutes - at the core of both projects lies wimlib-imagex. Without Eric's fantastic work (and hard work, and continual development, and bug fixes, and adding feature requests) neither one of my own projects would exist.

Thanks again.

Eric - due to work issues and commitments I'm not in a position to test any of the 1.8.3 Beta builds or the recent additions at the moment. The new features look interesting and very useful. Rest assured that I will do some testing when I find the time - realistically in about a month!

P.s. Almost forgot to say well done - so WELL DONE! You should be very proud of your work - I believe that I have mentioned this in another forum, however it's worth repeating. In my opinion wimlib-imagex outperforms the Microsoft .wim tools in most areas - it's more feature rich, is easy to use, and it's damn fast. The extract and inject features are particularly useful.

Hi,

Glad to hear you find the project so useful. I've been working on it much
longer than I expected when I started, but I've learned a lot from it. The
compressors and decompressors are generally the most interesting part. I was
amused to see recently that the 7-Zip author referred to my code when he added
support for solid LZMS-compressed WIM archives!

The new feature that perhaps could use the most testing is the "compact-mode
extraction" support, especially when applied to a full Windows system --- this
was implemented following user suggestions but I haven't yet done much testing
of it myself.

- synchronicity