Compilation strategy

[Walter Bright]

On 12/17/2012 6:40 PM, Rob T wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 02:17:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 12/17/2012 6:13 PM, Rob T wrote:
>>> Your suggestion concerning the use of zip files is a good idea, although you
>>> mention the encryption algo is very weak, but is there any reason to use a weak
>>> encryption algo, and is there even a reason to bother maintaining compatibility
>>> with the common zip format?
>>
>> Using standard zip tools is a big plus.
>
> Yes, but why limit yourself in this way?

The easy answer is look at the problems stemming from dmd using an object file 
format on Win32 that nobody else uses.