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

[Elvis Presley]

Nick Sabalausky Wrote:

> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.1834.1324571496.24802.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> > On Thursday, December 22, 2011 06:25:42 a wrote:
> >> Why are you ignoring the statement about 7z having  the same 
> >> accessibility
> >> level as rar? Rar files are not rare and users who can open rar files (on
> >> Windows usually with WinRAR or 7zip) can also open 7z files.
> >
> > But not without installing 3rd party software. Windows can handle zip 
> > files out
> > of the box. It can't handle the others. rar would have exactly the same
> > problem as 7z files (though from what I've see rar files are much more 
> > commonly
> > used). We _could_ use a file format other than zip, but then we'd be 
> > requiring
> > that the user download a 3rd party app just to be able to open the file, 
> > which
> > is _not_ the case with zip.
> >
> 
> Once again:
> 
> 1. "If you're a programmer, or even just a power user, you have absolutely 
> no
> excuse not to *already* have a 7z-capable program [EDIT: such as WinRAR, for 
> instance] installed."
> 
> 2. "What the hell programmer is limited to whatever archive support just 
> happens to be
> built into Windows?"
> 
> Even *in addition* to all of that, the built-in windows support for zip is 
> *extremely* dummy^H^H^H^H^Haverage-Joe -oriented. Page after page of 
> hand-holding "wizard" *just* to "extract here"? I can't imagine any 
> programmer or power user even being capable of putting up with that for more 
> than a few days before finally just grabbing WinRAR, etc. And I'm not just 
> speculating: Honestly, I've never even known *one* programmer or power user 
> who actually used Windows's built-in zip support.
> 
> 

I like Nicks rant. I'll add my own:

Fucking self extracting 7-zip!

Easier than dumb zip on windows.

Or it is not kosher by D's way ?