Could we use something better than zip for the dmd package?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Dec 21 14:53:05 PST 2011


On 12/21/2011 12:58 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> Now, to answer your question: according to their website, WinZip starting with
> version 12 supports creating ZIP archives with LZMA compression - but, of
> course, to unpack them you need an archiving tool that can understand such ZIP
> files. It's likely that such software is even more rare that 7-Zip itself, and
> will result in more confusion ("Why can't I open this ZIP file? I can open any
> other ZIP file but not this one...").

I understand that issue. The idea is to support it, at least for unzipping, in 
all new versions, and gradually that support will filter out into the community.


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