Support for MSI Format

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
tooling

Research direction

The issue names no repository files or tests. Start by reviewing the existing archive extraction handlers and the linked lessmsi source, then determine whether MSI support should use that project or a new implementation; done means MSI files can be extracted alongside the formats already supported by RecursiveExtractor.

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Description

enhancement

The MSI installer format is not dissimilar to an archive of many files.

There is a .NET Framework library for parsing MSI files, but no nuget is published. It may be possible to fork lessmsi and add MSI extraction support, or write it from scratch.

Dominant language
C#
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220
Forks
35
Avg merge
20d 1h
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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