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

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Friday, 23 December 2011 at 17:13:25 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> Interestingly, in my experience, 7z seems to even beat .tar.bz2 
> by a non-trivial amount.

Slackware Linux recently changed from the old .tar.gz for it's
distribution to .tar.xz - .xz uses the same algorithm as 7zip.

I never cared much for bz2 myself. It's slightly better than gzip,
but it comes at the cost of being slow as crap.

xz seems ok on speed and pretty good at compressing though.

> I'm actually inching closer to being a linux guy.

My condolences.