personally with regards to installers, i would like to see poser be able to handle simple compressed containers which hold ALL of the associated files for a product, rather than each product littering your runtime with hundreds of files and folders.

a poser user should be able to just buy a product .ZIP and place that .ZIP file into a 'Runtime' folder which they could organize how they like.  INSIDE the .zip we have the same runtime structure as our product zips have now (or you could have Poser search for required files automatically within the zip) - however the end user would not have to unzip, they could just leave it in the 'container'.  similar to how compressed .ROMs are handled by emulators.

the application (poser) would read the files in this runtime folder (a cache could be created to speed up startup). decompressing textures, geometries, etc on the fly with modern processors would be a trivial task.

since OBJ, CR2, TIFF, etc files often compress to 10% their uncompressed size, this would immediately shrink runtimes to a fraction of their size. in addition, it would improve drive performance - especially for NTFS and flash based drives.

installing, uninstalling, reinstalling, archiving, etc would simply be a matter of moving a ~10 meg .ZIP container around. UPDATING a product would be a breeze since you would simply need to overwrite the .ZIP.

im not a software engineer - in fact im not a technical brain at all. but i dont see why this would not be possible?