lxqt-archiver vs. Arqiver?

[probonopd]

Are

• https://github.com/tsujan/Arqiver
• https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-archiver

somehow related? Are both under active development, are there any philosophical differences between the two?
Which one would you recommend us to ship in helloSystem?

[tsujan]

lxqt-archiver belongs to LXQt and is a Qt fork of engrampa — its core code is based on GLib and it uses libfm-qt — while Arqiver is an DE-independent, Qt-based front-end for bsdtar (as it's called in Linux), 7z and gzip. They're both under active development: lxqt-archiver by the LXQt team (me included) and Arqiver by me.

Their main difference is that lxqt-archiver uses GLib to handle the command-line options of its backends, while Arqiver does it by using Qt. Because of that, Arqiver has a much more compact code.