library.zip and 7zip

[Peter Hansen]

Scott David Daniels wrote:

> Jaco Smuts wrote:
> 
>> ... I  am trying to use 7 zip to reduce  the size of my library.zip 
>> file, but this  seems to break the application....
>> Any advice ?
> 
> 7zip uses the most recent ZIP specification, while Python's zip only
> allows access to "ZIP_STORED" and "ZIP_DEFLATED" compression.  I've a
> back-burner project to add at least BZIP2 compression to zipfile, but
> I've had problems getting good small test cases using other
> compressions.  I tried 7zip when I was looking, but it was pretty
> broken on Win2K at the time.  Sometime this fall, the patent on
> "IMPLODE" will expire,and that may be the right time to add that
> as well to zipfile.

Shouldn't somebody remove that recipe from the wiki then?  Or
can it in fact work (sometimes?), and the explanation is something
else?

-Peter