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

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:jd0q1h$12pu$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 22/12/2011 17:27, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> <snip>
>> IIRC it's possible to just open the ZIP archive as a regular folder with 
>> the built-in
>> support.
>
> It's possible to open the zip so that it looks superficially like a 
> regular folder.  And in doing so you can browse the files in the zip, copy 
> them to somewhere else like regular files, and put files into the zip as 
> if it's a folder.
>
> But IIRC you can't open and re-save files within the zip in-place.  Nor 
> can you view the zip in arbitrary apps as a regular folder, because this 
> zip support is part of Explorer and not of the OS's implementation of the 
> overall file system.
>
> And I've found it to be very slow.  People are bound to look for something 
> faster.  And in doing so, might get 7z support as a bonus, thereby 
> increasing the time saving further if only we added a 7z format DMD 
> package.
>

Yea, it is better than the wizard, but it still doesn't compare to the 
"Right-Click"->"Extract"->Done that every other windows archiver on the 
planet supports (and some Linux file managers, too).