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.
Not sure if there's a ready to use, cross platform 7z library. LZMA compression is supported by liblzma, but it doesn't support the 7z container (it uses .tar.xz or no container instead) https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/liblzma
