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Explain why we're not using ZIP #45

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@jyasskin

We have some hints in https://w3ctag.github.io/packaging-on-the-web/#intro, but it's not complete, and it needs to appear in the local explainer, not something remote.

Other considerations against zip:

We should probably also list reasons in favor of re-using zip so that proponents know we've considered their arguments:

  • A huge number of other formats are based on zip, so we're unlikely to run into something we can't express.
  • Existing tools would be able to extract packages.

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