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Mostly it seems nutty that, after all these years, they’re still updating the zip spec instead of moving on to a newer format.
Mostly it seems nutty that, after all these years, they’re still updating the zip spec instead of moving on to a newer format.
Some things are used for interoperability, and switching to a newer incompatible thing loses all of its value.
That makes them useful for transferring an entire set of files that someone will want all or none of, e.g. source code, but terrible for a set of files that someone might want to access arbitrary files from.