Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker (evanhahn.com)

20 points by zdw 2 days ago

7 comments:

by lifthrasiir 41 minutes 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

by futune 34 minutes ago

I use ect on a monthly basis, at least. Especially for png files. It's pretty great!

by stuaxo 12 minutes ago

Nice, interesting to see if it helps docx much.

by jurgenkesker 15 minutes ago

APKs need to be zipaligned, I don't see that mentioned.

by akx 2 hours 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?

by Am4TIfIsER0ppos 6 minutes ago

Debian? Did they discover it yet?

by j16sdiz an hour 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.

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