[throw0101d]

> You can use ZSTD with ZIP files too!

Support for which was added in 2020:

> On 15 June 2020, Zstandard was implemented in version 6.3.8 of the zip file format with codec number 93, deprecating the previous codec number of 20 as it was implemented in version 6.3.7, released on 1 June.[36][37]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstd#Usage

So I'm not sure how widely deployed it would be.

[xxs]

Most linux distributions have zip support with zstd.

[danudey]

The `zip` command on Ubuntu is 6.0, which was released in 2009 and does not support zstd. It does support bzip2 though!

[cesarb]

> The `zip` command on Ubuntu is 6.0, which was released in 2009 and does not support zstd. It does support bzip2 though!

You probably mean the "unzip" command, which https://infozip.sourceforge.net/UnZip.html lists as 6.0 being the latest, released on 20 April 2009. Relevant to this discussion, new in that release are support for 64-bit file sizes, bzip2 compression method, and UTF-8 filenames.

The "zip" command is listed at https://infozip.sourceforge.net/Zip.html as 3.0 being the latest, released on 7 July 2008. New in that release are also support for 64-bit file sizes, bzip2 compression method, and UTF-8 filenames.

It would be great if both (or at least unzip) were updated to also support LZMA/XZ/ZSTD as compression methods, but given that there have been no new releases for over fifteen years, I'm not too hopeful.

[hulitu]

> It would be great if both (or at least unzip) were updated to also support LZMA/XZ/ZSTD as compression methods,

Why ? Xz supports xz, zstd supports zstd. Why should unzip support xz or rar or gz ?

[xxs]

i meant the "zip support" (as in zlib) with zstd command.