On 12/21/11 4:53 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/21/2011 12:58 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
Now, to answer your question: according to their website, WinZip
starting with
version 12 supports creating ZIP archives with LZMA compression - but, of
course, to unpack them you need an archiving tool that can understand
such ZIP
files. It's likely that such software is even more rare that 7-Zip
itself, and
will result in more confusion ("Why can't I open this ZIP file? I can
open any
other ZIP file but not this one...").
I understand that issue. The idea is to support it, at least for
unzipping, in all new versions, and gradually that support will filter
out into the community.
I repeat, this is a communal waste of time. I just downloaded and
re-compressed everything with 7zip, the reduction was not spectacular at
all - from 21.8MB to 17.3MB.
Also I had to take the detour of downloading and installing 7zip for Mac.
We need to reduce the files going into the archive and get onto a faster
site.
Keeping only OSX relevant files and recompressing with zip (which is
built-in OSX's contextual menu) creates an archive of 11.2 MB. Doing so
with 7zip yields an archive of 8.2 MB. That's more like it.
Andrei
