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

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, December 22, 2011 02:21:14 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message
> news:jcsk6i$27tq$2 at digitalmars.com...
> 
> > On 2011-12-20 20:57, Trass3r wrote:
> >> The ftp is not the fastest one and 7z reduces the size by 40%.
> > 
> > Switching away from zip could break several installation scripts/tools,
> > it will break DVM.
> 
> Yea, so 7z would need to be an option, rather than the only option.
> 
> The raises a side-point though: It would be great to have 7z support in
> Phobos. Or at least in Deimos just for starters.

One of those things that probably requires that streams be implemented. Once 
that's done, we should be able to make Phobos support a variety of archival 
formats.

- Jonathan M Davis