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

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Wednesday, 21 December 2011 at 23:46:12 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/21/11 5:37 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 21 December 2011 at 23:34:39 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I just downloaded and re-compressed everything with 7zip, the
>>> reduction was not spectacular at all - from 21.8MB to 17.3MB.
>>
>> Bwuh? I'm seeing a reduction to 11.6MB (10.5 with ultra 
>> compression).
>
> I used the standard settings. After tweaking stuff, I got 5.5 
> MB for the OSX necessary files only.
>
> The point is a smaller .zip and a faster site will benefit 
> *everyone*. For extra benefit of 7z users, fine, we can add 
> that option. But it shouldn't be the only one and the focus of 
> our initial efforts.

That's true. 7-Zip reduces the download size (and thus, speed) by 
at most one half. From a quick test just now, ftp.digitalmars.com 
is FIFTY times slower than Ubuntu's download servers for me.