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

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 21:53:12 Trass3r wrote:
> > 7z is not supported out of the box on most systems.
> 
> The package is created for devs, not noobs.
> btw Ubuntu's fine with 7z.

zip is by for the most ubiquitous, so it makes the most sense to use zip.

Personally, if I were going off of what was available on Linux, I'd be using 
tar.gz or tar.bz2, but that's not very Windows friendly. Pretty much nothing 
other than zip is Windows friendly. Yes, you _can_ install programs that will 
you allow you to decompress the file, but that just raises the barrier of entry 
to downloading and trying out dmd.

If we really want to improve the download times, what we really should be 
doing is splitting up the zip file into separate files for each OS, not picking 
a file format that many people won't be able to decompress without searching 
for a program to install which is able to process that format.

- Jonathan M Davis