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

[Johannes Pfau]

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.

Not sure if there's a ready to use, cross platform 7z library.
LZMA compression is supported by liblzma, but it doesn't support the 7z 
container (it uses .tar.xz or no container instead)

https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/liblzma