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

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-22 17:45, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> 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.
>
>

IIRC it's possible to just open the ZIP archive as a regular folder with 
the built-in support.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg