.NET 8 has been released yesterday: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-8/

We should move czishrink to .NET 8 soon.

See https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/next/guides/implementation-guides/localizing

Describe the bug
The CSV report uses a locale-dependent decimal separator in the SizeRatio column. In some locales (e. g. German) that may be a ',' which is also used as a column separator.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Set system locale to DE
2. Start CziShrink
3. Process some files'
4. Look at the CSV file in the output directory

Expected behavior
CZIShrink always uses '.' (dot) as decimal separatore.

Hello,

Is it possible to make the tool list the compression status of a CZI file? We would like to scan our local storage in search of uncompressed files.

Thanks!!

See https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/next/concepts/reactiveui/data-persistence
and https://www.reactiveui.net/docs/handbook/data-persistence/
and https://github.com/reactiveui/akavache

Things to persist:
input folder, output folder, recursive, operation, (...?)

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/keeping-your-actions-up-to-date-with-dependabot

We are already using it in:

https://github.com/ZEISS/libczi
https://github.com/ZEISS/imgdoc2
The nice thing is that you get PR comments, dashboards and everything else as part of one solution stack.

https://app.codecov.io/gh/ZEISS/libczi

Also: We do not need to rely on more/other community actions.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The following pipelines are currently triggered/running regardless whether there is a change justifying a run:

https://github.com/ZEISS/czicompress/actions/workflows/czicompress_cmake.yml
https://github.com/ZEISS/czicompress/actions/workflows/czishrink_dotnet.yml
https://github.com/ZEISS/czicompress/actions/workflows/czicompress_codeql.yml
https://github.com/ZEISS/czicompress/actions/workflows/czishrink_codeql.yml

Describe the solution you'd like
Make use of https://github.com/dorny/paths-filter to only run the pipelines listed above in case of changes in:

https://github.com/ZEISS/czicompress/actions/workflows/czicompress_cmake.yml
https://github.com/ZEISS/czicompress/actions/workflows/czicompress_codeql.yml
-> Change in czicompress or ./ excluding czishrink

https://github.com/ZEISS/czicompress/actions/workflows/czishrink_dotnet.yml
https://github.com/ZEISS/czicompress/actions/workflows/czishrink_codeql.yml
-> Change in czishrink or ./ excluding czicompress

Additional context
Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70708306/github-actions-run-step-job-in-a-workflow-if-changes-happen-in-specific-folde
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/25669
https://how.wtf/run-workflow-step-or-job-based-on-file-changes-github-actions.html

In particular, status checks will still work/apply:
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs/skipping-workflow-runs
https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/collaborating-on-repositories-with-code-quality-features/troubleshooting-required-status-checks#handling-skipped-but-required-checks

We should add a github action that automates creation of THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES_ARTIFACT_DISTRIBUTION.txt by aggregating from

• the respective files in the libczi repo
• the list of nuget packages used by czishrink (e. g. as output by dependabot)

There should be a unittest for this.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• no clean SBOM generation and supply chain management possible due to manual (locally driven by update script) update process of libczicompressc -> Related to #7
• currently need to store dll in code

Describe the solution you'd like
Using GitHub Packages NuGet registry to push from libczicompress build in GitHub action. Consumption in czishrink from there.

Additional context
https://docs.github.com/en/packages/working-with-a-github-packages-registry/working-with-the-nuget-registry
https://github.blog/changelog/2022-12-09-packages-fine-grained-permissions-and-organization-level-publishing-are-now-available-for-the-github-packages-nuget-registry/

It was nice to listen to your presentation at the I2K conference.
What is the difference between this czicompress and what is already available in the ZEN?

Thanks,
Alex

Nuget restore is the slowest part of the CziShrink build, we may be able to speed up with caching

See https://github.com/actions/cache/blob/main/examples.md#c---nuget