Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker

(evanhahn.com)

17 points | by zdw 2 days ago

1 comments

  • akx 1 hour ago
    > Typically, other archives like .tar.bz2 can be smaller. But those aren’t backwards-compatible!

    Is there any point for (new) .bz2 archives in the era of Zstd?

    • j16sdiz 21 minutes ago
      Tooling ?

      It takes years for bzip2 be in every Linux Distro, and we _still_ doing gzip.

      LZMA / xz tool are start to get more support, but they are nowhere near universal.

      No idea when how long zstd will need.