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

[Kagamin]

But not without installing 3rd party software. Windows can 
handle zip files out of the box. It can't handle the others. 
rar would have exactly the same problem as 7z files (though 
from what I've see rar files are much more commonly used). We 
_could_ use a file format other than zip, but then we'd be 
requiring that the user download a 3rd party app just to be 
able to open the file, which is _not_ the case with zip.

Availability is achieved by native installers, and AFAIK we have 
them - installers for Mac, Win, and a bunch for Lin. 
Copy-deployment is an advanced format, and I think it's pretty ok 
for it to be 7z. It's not very easy to begin with: you have to 
figure out how to install it - it's a matter of convention which 
is yet to get, where to install it, cope with privilege 
restrictions etc.