A single zip archive instead of multiple files

[setop]

There is this redbean beast that is able to serve static file from itself as it is an exe and a zip archive at the same time.
It can be manipulated with standard tool: zip -u redbean.zip index.html (it has to be named with ".zip" extension)
Then run as a standalone program : ./redbean.zip and it will serve the entries in the zip archive.

So, if gitmal was able to write the generated pages into a zip instead of on the filesystem, this could provide a very elegant solution to distribute the content as a standalone asset. And it is not only for redbean but for any tool that is able to serve the content of a zip archive.

Not only zip archives are compressed but also more compact than files in a FS, for which a file is a multiple of 4KB.

[setop]

As an example, I have a repo with 7K commits, and 3K files. Running gitmal on the main branch, minified :

• Plain HTML files : Total disk usage: 668,6 MiB Apparent size: 653,9 MiB Items: 9502
• Gziped HTML files : Total disk usage: 127,0 MiB Apparent size: 103,9 MiB Items: 9502
• Redbean Zip file : Total disk usage: 108,3 MiB Apparent size: 108,2 MiB Items: 1

So the zip archive saves 23MB compare to FS (and Redbean adds 5MB).

[antonmedv]

redbean looks intersting. for this feature I need somebody who is willing to implement it.