09-24-2011, 08:45 AM
All of the files that are submitted are already compressed (PNG, GIF, etc). The only reason we allow archives is to make stuff easier to download as a bundle, since the contents are already compressed, the extra compression provided by them does absolutely no good, so there's no reason for other formats other than the most popular one, since it's just an inconvenience for people to open them, with no benefit in file size.
In theory, they should be all ZIPs with no compression (store mechanism), but asking people to make their ZIPs like that is more trouble than worth. Unless I'm missing something and there are cases where people do submit archives with uncompressed content? Perhaps models benefit from archive compression?
In any case, I'd lean towards ZIP only, unless we have files that benefit from stronger compression by a lot (which is definitely not the case for sprites, mp3s and etc), but in that case, either ZIP or 7zip.
In theory, they should be all ZIPs with no compression (store mechanism), but asking people to make their ZIPs like that is more trouble than worth. Unless I'm missing something and there are cases where people do submit archives with uncompressed content? Perhaps models benefit from archive compression?
In any case, I'd lean towards ZIP only, unless we have files that benefit from stronger compression by a lot (which is definitely not the case for sprites, mp3s and etc), but in that case, either ZIP or 7zip.