> looks to me like tar+lzma is the way to go, not 7z In my quick test, lzma got a 7.6, beating 7z by a negligible margin.
I think it largely comes down to whether any of these are popular enough to justify the effort of offering in that format. We've been down this road before in the transition from compress to gzip and then from gzip to bzip2. DS ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]