[Feature]: Add support for alternative ZIP-compatible compression schemes in nuget

[grendello]

NuGet Product(s) Involved

NuGet.exe, NuGet SDK

The Elevator Pitch

Nugets are getting bigger and bigger, but they keep using the standard zlib compression of their contents. However, the ZIP standard allows for alternative compressions (see section 4.4.3 here), with libraries like libzip (and its managed wrapper LibZipSharp) or the 7z SDK supporting all of the additional compression algorithms. If support for them (lzma or bzip2) would be added to NuGet, the system would remain compatible with the existing nuget compression but would allow for creation of new nugets which
use the other compression schemes, benefiting users as far as download times and disk space are concerned.

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[JonDouglas]

Hey Marek,

Hope you're doing well and thanks for filing a feature request! I'll bring this up in a future meeting, but in the meantime, I've edited the description to help collect votes.

[sdcb]

Really need this one, I have a 1.5GB dll here, normally it will packed as a 400MB+ nupkg package, however if I using lzma compression algorithm, I can make it ~100MB, please do something!!!