I don't think yr gonna sell this to us, man... :/
I appreciate all the good points of using .7z, but the cold hard fact that we can't use it due to compatibility still hangs in the air, like a fart in an elevator.
You may have better luck trying to push the .7z format in the ISO Cellar, as the files there are of a size that is
actually worth bothering with.
Most of our archives are pretty small, granted that they will only increase in size as the years press on.
At the moment, there is simply no need to upgrade to a different standard.
Maybe when archive sizes get too big to manage and people use formats such as .7z (another programme we would have to support on the user-end, which we can really do without since we have our hands full with dosbox as it is, most of the time) a lot more and server costs get prohibitive for less compressed archives...
The list goes on and on.
This will probably always be a point in contest, but until everyone is sold on it (and that includes our users) I doubt very much it will happen, man.
Try nosing in the ISO Cellar (if you don't have access to that forum, stick around and you will soon) and suggesting it there.
Those files do need a bit more compression and the people who use them are a bit more IT savvy, ye savvy?
