Is it a good approach to rely on 3rd party software ( not library )?
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We have program using a call to a winzip program or 7zip commandline tool to zip some files. Once I accidentally uninstall winzip on my computer and making one of our program( created by the programmer already left ) crashed. So we cannot uninstall the winzip program.
Now I've come to a point which I need to decide a external tool for gzip in windows or I make a java program which I can call to gzip the file.
Obviously a external tool such as 7z is convenient and we can avoid some extra coding with java. On the contrary, if 7z is uninstalled accidentally, our program will crash. What do you think?
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