Could we use something better than zip for the dmd package?
Kagamin
spam at here.lot
Thu Dec 22 02:23:19 PST 2011
> If you're trying to have an archival format that pretty much
> any computer can open out of the box, zip is the only option.
> If you're restricting yourself to Linux computers specifically,
> there are definitely more options, but Windows can only handle
> zip files. For all other archival formats, the user has to
> track down a program which can handle them. No, that's not
> hard, but it _does_ raise the bar of entry somewhat, and
> there's really nothing wrong with using zip.
Only Linux and Mac users complain here about lack of 7z support
in their oses.
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