In article <3e4c03b1@news.povray.org>,
 "Vadim Sytnikov" <syt### [at] rucom> wrote:

> IMHO that does make *some* sense... IIRC, zip archives do have a notion of
> 'text' (vs. binary) files. So, properly done, zip decompressor should be
> able to produce platform-specific source (== text, honoring platform's CR/LF
> convention etc.) files on each given platform -- from a *single* archive.

That only solves one problem, line endings in text files. And you have 
to find or write some software that can take care of it.

Even if you could find an archive format that would safely store 
everything necessary (maybe by storing sub-archives in a system 
dependant format), it would mean longer downloads for everybody and more 
bandwidth consumption for the server, and would only be of slight 
benefit to very few people.

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