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Author rhettinger
Recipients rhettinger
Date 2013-01-20.18:41:42
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Only a little of the existing logic is tied to the zipfile format.  Consider adding support for xz, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, etc.

In particular, xz has better compression, resulting in both space savings and faster load times.
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