On Thursday, December 22, 2011 02:21:14 Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Jacob Carlborg" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > > > On 2011-12-20 20:57, Trass3r wrote: > >> The ftp is not the fastest one and 7z reduces the size by 40%. > > > > Switching away from zip could break several installation scripts/tools, > > it will break DVM. > > Yea, so 7z would need to be an option, rather than the only option. > > The raises a side-point though: It would be great to have 7z support in > Phobos. Or at least in Deimos just for starters.
One of those things that probably requires that streams be implemented. Once that's done, we should be able to make Phobos support a variety of archival formats. - Jonathan M Davis
