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v0.13 - March 12, 2024

  • new: option -H, --hunksize to specify the exact size of hunks in bytes used with chdman, only needed in special cases, #6
  • changed: search for executables such as 7z and chdman programs in scripts own installed directory first, this makes it more portable
  • changed: temporary folders where archives are unpacked to will start with dot again, so they are hidden at default, but only if no path is specified with --temp-dir

v0.12 - March 8, 2024

Note: We are jumping over v0.11 and combine it with next version v0.12.

  • bug: counter for finish states like "Completed: 0" are disabled, when combining the options -p and -s, because counting these variables is not thread safe at the moment
  • bug: cpu count was wrongly reported when using custom number for threads
  • new setting in option: specify -m auto to determine "cd" or "dvd" format based on filesize with a 750 MB threshold (thanks AlexanderRavenheart #3)
  • changed: generation and handling of temporary folders refactored, now it's using proper builtin tempfile functionality instead custom logic, currently the folders are not hidden anymore (thanks AlexanderRavenheart #3)
  • changed: due to the new approach of temporary folders, the option -E will finally cause Ctrl+c to delete temporary files and folders before exiting (thanks AlexanderRavenheart #3)
  • removed: option -f and --fast, because nobody actually needs it, its an artefact of early testings to quickly generate huge files
  • lot of internal code refactor for being more consistent styling and naming (thanks AlexanderRavenheart #3)

v0.10 - February 11, 2024

  • new: option -m to specify disc format created by chdman backend, defaults to cd, but for certain emulators (such as ppsspp) dvd is recommended
  • new: option -s to display additional stats, such as a summary at the end and how long the operation took
  • new option -n to simply shorten the displayed path of printed jobs as filenames only, excluding the folder part
  • changed: also the install and uninstall scripts are reworked
  • removed: Makefile deleted, no need for PyInstaller packaged bundles, assuming most modern distributions can run the Python script anyway
  • removed: PKGBUILD deleted, which was used to create the Archlinux package for the AUR, its just confusing and unnecessary for the end user and not needed to be part of the project

v0.9 - July 06, 2022

  • changed: now flushes the output of job message without buffering, useful for live monitoring and reading stdout the moment it is written
  • new: added a "PKGBUILD" for use with pacman, can be used to generate an Archlinux package

v0.8 - March 30, 2022

  • new: pseudo compiled bundle of the script with pyinstaller to build a standalone executable, available on Releases page
  • new: "Makefile" script for make to create the standalone bundle of Python script with the Python interpreter and package it into an archive
  • changed: runs with default options -X ., if no options provided
  • some little internal optimizations or additions, such as code comments

v0.7 - March 26, 2022

  • changed: when multithreading with option -p, the stdout and statistics from invoked 7z and chdman commands are no longer hidden anymore, only the progress bar and stderr stream are hidden, use option -q to suppress any output from these commands (how it worked previously)

v0.6 - March 25, 2022 - Complete rewrite

  • new implementation of entire script by rewriting from ground up, additional source code checks are done with mypy and flake8 to ensure some basic quality, hopefully more readable code and improved robustness

  • changed: default behavior of Ctrl+c (keyboard interrupt, SIGINT) will stop current job process and continue with the next one in list

  • changed: more reliable in removing temporary folders and unfinished files, even with multithreading enabled and on Ctrl+c signal

  • new: option -E to change behavior of Ctrl+c to immediately stop execution of entire script, which may leave temporary folders and unfinished files on the system

  • new: option - (a single dash) to read files from stdin for each line

  • changed: ignore files within same folder as .gdi files

  • new: option -R to disable automatic renaming of .chd files created from an archive and leave original filename

  • changed: default behavior for automatically renaming produced .chd filename from inside an archive to match the source archive name (this can be disable with new option -R)

  • even more undiscussed new options: --7z, --chdman, -f, -q, -X

  • changed: different job messages to indicate failure or success

  • changed: does not wait to finish first group of .iso files anymore, previously script was producing .iso files first and then loading other types

v0.5

  • new: option -d to specify output directory for the temporary folder and final .chd file, if specified then all new files are created in this directory
  • new: option -r to rename .chd files created from archives to match their archive filenames
  • changed: added job index number to each "Processing" and "Finished" messages, useful if input and output paths differ or parallel option -p is active
  • new: option --list-apps will list path of all found programs used by tochd
  • new: projects Github link added to the bottom of --help output

v0.4

  • new: option -t to specify the max number of threads for multiprocessing
  • changed: defaults to 2 threads if option -p is used without -t
  • changed: automatically use option -y on 7z process when multiprocessing with -p is active, useful not to wait on user input
  • new: option -c to limit the number of processors to utilize when compressing with chdman, indipendet from multiprocessing threads
  • fix: did not extract archives properly in specific situations
  • fix: if input was a directory, then the content was ignored, now all files in a directory are processed

v0.3

  • new: initial support for experimental multithreading, use -p option to activate

v0.2

  • new: check each archive, only extract files if supported files are found inside
  • new: if an archive or directory contains .gdi files, then ignore all other files and only process .gdi files

v0.1

  • initial release