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

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Friday, 23 December 2011 at 03:24:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

RAR (and some others) supports "recovery records" and "recovery 
volumes" (redundant data). The cool thing about them is that with 
a recovery record of 10%, ANY 10% of the archive's blocks may be 
lost and the entire archive can be recovered. It was a life-saver 
back in the days of floppies.