Cross-platform solution that requires no additional software install on client machine.

[InTheZ]

I ran into trouble with the old version in a Windows 7 without any archive utilities installed. This uses the traditional zip format which ships by default with windows, linux and mac os x. The archive file did grow by 3 MB but it should run faster than a bzip2 version. Also, I had to pull out the directory inside the archive because windows seems to be confused by it. Flattening the file structure fixed all the issues.

[InTheZ]

Not 3MB, 300 KB.

[foobarmus]

Thanks for your contribution and sorry for the delayed reply. If you'd like this merged, please:

• put the directory back into the zip file so it's like a proper zip file
• figure out how to make it work on windows (with the directory inside the zip file).
• provide some output from "python3 unit_tests/test.py" before and after (on a mac or linux box) to substantiate your claim that it "should run faster"

Cheers