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

[Walter Bright]

On 12/22/2011 11:27 AM, Mirko Pilger wrote:
> i use 7z myself for backups for a couple of years now

I quit using compression for backups. The problem was that if the backup media 
lost even one bit, you lose the entirety of the compressed file(s). Yes, this 
happened.

It's also a problem because my file searching programs don't look inside 
compressed files.