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MultiUpload's unpack function should be more Windows-friendly
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Filing this for future reference, right now MultiUpload's so broken under MW 1.26+ that it's not even funny...

MultiUploadApiUnpack::unpack (in MultiUploadApi.php) hard-codes certain shell commands, namely the usage of tar or unzip to untar/unzip a .tar/.tar.gz/.zip file. This works well on most *NIX-like systems where said binaries are available, but not so much on Windows. Windows users should have a way to configure MultiUpload to use 7-Zip instead.

Related StackOverflow thread about unzipping files via CLI on Windows

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ashley created this task.Jan 27 2016, 3:32 PM
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SamanthaNguyen subscribed.Feb 5 2017, 12:14 AM

@ashley Can this be closed since you made a commit at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/334788/ ? It mentions "Windows unzipping support in the API module", but it also says "sorta" at the end of that comment

ashley added a comment.Feb 5 2017, 12:20 AM
In T124908#2998923, @SamanthaNguyen wrote:

@ashley Can this be closed since you made a commit at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/334788/ ? It mentions "Windows unzipping support in the API module", but it also says "sorta" at the end of that comment

No. The linked patch adds unzip support for MultiUpload under Windows, but that's it. Just unzip, no untar or anything for handling .tar(.gz) files, or rather, for configuring 7-Zip or somesuch to handle those, and that's what this ticket is about.

SamanthaNguyen unsubscribed.Aug 29 2017, 5:04 AM
Aklapper removed ashley as the assignee of this task.Jun 19 2020, 4:23 PM

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Aklapper closed this task as Declined.Apr 6 2021, 9:23 AM

Declining as the MultiUpload extension is unmaintained and non-functional with recent MediaWiki releases. See T268667 for more information.

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