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Posted by zdw 2 days ago

Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker(evanhahn.com)
17 points | 3 comments
lifthrasiir 1 minute ago|
While not very popular, ECT [1] is (still?) the best solution in this space and has been my go-to tool for this purpose.

[1] https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool

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 29 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.