"Andrei Alexandrescu" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > 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. >
Those results are all because it's difficult to find good software for Macs. I just downloaded the 2.056 zip (18.8 MB) to both my windows machine and my (k)ubuntu machine[*]. I extracted it, and then recompressed to 7z. With the *default* settings, the default program on kubuntu gave me 10.2 MB. On Windows, 7zip gave me 9.6 MB. So, yea, good luck finding good Mac software. [*] Why not 2.057? Because it's late and I wasn't thinking ;) > We need to reduce the files going into the archive and get onto a faster > site. > I can't disagree with that.
