diff --git a/Gopkg.lock b/Gopkg.lock
index e87db2f32..01d0f4082 100644
--- a/Gopkg.lock
+++ b/Gopkg.lock
@@ -123,16 +123,6 @@
   packages = ["query"]
   revision = "53e6ce116135b80d037921a7fdd5138cf32d7a8a"
 
-[[projects]]
-  name = "github.com/goreleaser/archive"
-  packages = [
-    ".",
-    "tar",
-    "zip"
-  ]
-  revision = "9c6b0c177751034bab579499b81c69993ddfe563"
-  version = "v1.1.3"
-
 [[projects]]
   name = "github.com/goreleaser/nfpm"
   packages = [
@@ -262,6 +252,6 @@
 [solve-meta]
   analyzer-name = "dep"
   analyzer-version = 1
-  inputs-digest = "f8fe5bd56d1929f1592ca556cb199eec1d49bbc99d1b1cd5796a9a2be7d6bb22"
+  inputs-digest = "c2930bf7f01a483d6510c5de94e117a16965ae17a44510c60e488da4778d77b9"
   solver-name = "gps-cdcl"
   solver-version = 1
diff --git a/Gopkg.toml b/Gopkg.toml
index 643055f86..ef0b9817a 100644
--- a/Gopkg.toml
+++ b/Gopkg.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-[[constraint]]
-  name = "github.com/goreleaser/archive"
-  version = "^1.0.0"
-
 [[constraint]]
   branch = "master"
   name = "github.com/google/go-github"
diff --git a/pipeline/archive/archive.go b/pipeline/archive/archive.go
index c3e52901e..e6fe4b09f 100644
--- a/pipeline/archive/archive.go
+++ b/pipeline/archive/archive.go
@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/apex/log"
 	"github.com/campoy/unique"
-	"github.com/mattn/go-zglob"
+	zglob "github.com/mattn/go-zglob"
 	"golang.org/x/sync/errgroup"
 
-	"github.com/goreleaser/archive"
 	"github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/context"
 	"github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/internal/artifact"
 	"github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/internal/tmpl"
+	"github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/pkg/archive"
 )
 
 const (
diff --git a/pkg/archive/archive.go b/pkg/archive/archive.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..40a816938
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/archive/archive.go
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+// Package archive provides tar.gz and zip archiving
+package archive
+
+import (
+	"os"
+
+	"path/filepath"
+
+	"github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/pkg/archive/tar"
+	"github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/pkg/archive/zip"
+)
+
+// Archive represents a compression archive files from disk can be written to.
+type Archive interface {
+	Close() error
+	Add(name, path string) error
+}
+
+// New archive
+// If the exentions of the target file is .zip, the archive will be in the zip
+// format, otherwise, it will be a tar.gz archive.
+func New(file *os.File) Archive {
+	if filepath.Ext(file.Name()) == ".zip" {
+		return zip.New(file)
+	}
+	return tar.New(file)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/archive/archive_test.go b/pkg/archive/archive_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..181ba4047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/archive/archive_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+package archive
+
+import (
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestArchive(t *testing.T) {
+	var assert = assert.New(t)
+	folder, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "archivetest")
+	assert.NoError(err)
+	empty, err := os.Create(folder + "/empty.txt")
+	assert.NoError(err)
+	assert.NoError(os.Mkdir(folder+"/folder-inside", 0755))
+
+	for _, archive := range []Archive{
+		newArchive(folder, "tar.gz", t),
+		newArchive(folder, "zip", t),
+	} {
+		assert.NoError(archive.Add("empty.txt", empty.Name()))
+		assert.NoError(archive.Add("empty.txt", folder+"/folder-inside"))
+		assert.Error(archive.Add("dont.txt", empty.Name()+"_nope"))
+		assert.NoError(archive.Close())
+	}
+}
+
+func newArchive(folder, format string, t *testing.T) Archive {
+	file, err := os.Create(folder + "/folder." + format)
+	assert.NoError(t, err)
+	return New(file)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/archive/tar/tar.go b/pkg/archive/tar/tar.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b88be4f65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/archive/tar/tar.go
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+// Package tar implements the Archive interface providing tar.gz archiving
+// and compression.
+package tar
+
+import (
+	"archive/tar"
+	"compress/gzip"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+)
+
+// Archive as tar.gz
+type Archive struct {
+	gw *gzip.Writer
+	tw *tar.Writer
+}
+
+// Close all closeables
+func (a Archive) Close() error {
+	if err := a.tw.Close(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return a.gw.Close()
+}
+
+// New tar.gz archive
+func New(target io.Writer) Archive {
+	gw := gzip.NewWriter(target)
+	tw := tar.NewWriter(gw)
+	return Archive{
+		gw: gw,
+		tw: tw,
+	}
+}
+
+// Add file to the archive
+func (a Archive) Add(name, path string) error {
+	file, err := os.Open(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer file.Close() // nolint: errcheck
+	info, err := file.Stat()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	header, err := tar.FileInfoHeader(info, name)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	header.Name = name
+	if err = a.tw.WriteHeader(header); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if info.IsDir() {
+		return nil
+	}
+	_, err = io.Copy(a.tw, file)
+	return err
+}
diff --git a/pkg/archive/tar/tar_test.go b/pkg/archive/tar/tar_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4d82c9f05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/archive/tar/tar_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+package tar
+
+import (
+	"archive/tar"
+	"compress/gzip"
+	"io"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestTarGzFile(t *testing.T) {
+	var assert = assert.New(t)
+	tmp, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "")
+	assert.NoError(err)
+	f, err := os.Create(filepath.Join(tmp, "test.tar.gz"))
+	assert.NoError(err)
+	defer f.Close() // nolint: errcheck
+	archive := New(f)
+
+	assert.Error(archive.Add("nope.txt", "../testdata/nope.txt"))
+	assert.NoError(archive.Add("foo.txt", "../testdata/foo.txt"))
+	assert.NoError(archive.Add("sub1", "../testdata/sub1"))
+	assert.NoError(archive.Add("sub1/bar.txt", "../testdata/sub1/bar.txt"))
+	assert.NoError(archive.Add("sub1/executable", "../testdata/sub1/executable"))
+	assert.NoError(archive.Add("sub1/sub2", "../testdata/sub1/sub2"))
+	assert.NoError(archive.Add("sub1/sub2/subfoo.txt", "../testdata/sub1/sub2/subfoo.txt"))
+
+	assert.NoError(archive.Close())
+	assert.Error(archive.Add("tar.go", "tar.go"))
+	assert.NoError(f.Close())
+
+	t.Log(f.Name())
+	f, err = os.Open(f.Name())
+	assert.NoError(err)
+	info, err := f.Stat()
+	assert.NoError(err)
+	assert.Truef(info.Size() < 500, "archived file should be smaller than %d", info.Size())
+	gzf, err := gzip.NewReader(f)
+	assert.NoError(err)
+	var paths []string
+	r := tar.NewReader(gzf)
+	for {
+		next, err := r.Next()
+		if err == io.EOF {
+			break
+		}
+		assert.NoError(err)
+		paths = append(paths, next.Name)
+		t.Logf("%s: %v", next.Name, next.FileInfo().Mode())
+		if next.Name == "sub1/executable" {
+			assert.Equal("-rwxrwxr-x", next.FileInfo().Mode().String())
+		}
+	}
+	assert.Equal([]string{
+		"foo.txt",
+		"sub1",
+		"sub1/bar.txt",
+		"sub1/executable",
+		"sub1/sub2",
+		"sub1/sub2/subfoo.txt",
+	}, paths)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/archive/testdata/foo.txt b/pkg/archive/testdata/foo.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..257cc5642
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/archive/testdata/foo.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+foo
diff --git a/pkg/archive/testdata/sub1/bar.txt b/pkg/archive/testdata/sub1/bar.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5716ca598
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/archive/testdata/sub1/bar.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+bar
diff --git a/pkg/archive/testdata/sub1/executable b/pkg/archive/testdata/sub1/executable
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/pkg/archive/testdata/sub1/sub2/subfoo.txt b/pkg/archive/testdata/sub1/sub2/subfoo.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..62e0af52c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/archive/testdata/sub1/sub2/subfoo.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+sub
diff --git a/pkg/archive/zip/zip.go b/pkg/archive/zip/zip.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..67bddbfc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/archive/zip/zip.go
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+// Package zip implements the Archive interface providing zip archiving
+// and compression.
+package zip
+
+import (
+	"archive/zip"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+)
+
+// Archive zip struct
+type Archive struct {
+	z *zip.Writer
+}
+
+// Close all closeables
+func (a Archive) Close() error {
+	return a.z.Close()
+}
+
+// New zip archive
+func New(target io.Writer) Archive {
+	return Archive{
+		z: zip.NewWriter(target),
+	}
+}
+
+// Add a file to the zip archive
+func (a Archive) Add(name, path string) (err error) {
+	file, err := os.Open(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return
+	}
+	defer file.Close() // nolint: errcheck
+	info, err := file.Stat()
+	if err != nil {
+		return
+	}
+	if info.IsDir() {
+		return
+	}
+	header, err := zip.FileInfoHeader(info)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	header.Name = name
+	w, err := a.z.CreateHeader(header)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	_, err = io.Copy(w, file)
+	return err
+}
diff --git a/pkg/archive/zip/zip_test.go b/pkg/archive/zip/zip_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b0b2a8bba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/archive/zip/zip_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package zip
+
+import (
+	"archive/zip"
+	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestZipFile(t *testing.T) {
+	var assert = assert.New(t)
+	tmp, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "")
+	assert.NoError(err)
+	f, err := os.Create(filepath.Join(tmp, "test.zip"))
+	assert.NoError(err)
+	fmt.Println(f.Name())
+	defer f.Close() // nolint: errcheck
+	archive := New(f)
+
+	assert.Error(archive.Add("nope.txt", "../testdata/nope.txt"))
+	assert.NoError(archive.Add("foo.txt", "../testdata/foo.txt"))
+	assert.NoError(archive.Add("sub1", "../testdata/sub1"))
+	assert.NoError(archive.Add("sub1/bar.txt", "../testdata/sub1/bar.txt"))
+	assert.NoError(archive.Add("sub1/executable", "../testdata/sub1/executable"))
+	assert.NoError(archive.Add("sub1/sub2", "../testdata/sub1/sub2"))
+	assert.NoError(archive.Add("sub1/sub2/subfoo.txt", "../testdata/sub1/sub2/subfoo.txt"))
+
+	assert.NoError(archive.Close())
+	assert.Error(archive.Add("tar.go", "tar.go"))
+	assert.NoError(f.Close())
+
+	t.Log(f.Name())
+	f, err = os.Open(f.Name())
+	assert.NoError(err)
+	info, err := f.Stat()
+	assert.NoError(err)
+	assert.Truef(info.Size() < 900, "archived file should be smaller than %d", info.Size())
+	r, err := zip.NewReader(f, info.Size())
+	assert.NoError(err)
+	var paths = make([]string, len(r.File))
+	for i, zf := range r.File {
+		paths[i] = zf.Name
+		t.Logf("%s: %v", zf.Name, zf.Mode())
+		if zf.Name == "sub1/executable" {
+			assert.Equal("-rwxrwxr-x", zf.Mode().String())
+		}
+	}
+	assert.Equal([]string{
+		"foo.txt",
+		"sub1/bar.txt",
+		"sub1/executable",
+		"sub1/sub2/subfoo.txt",
+	}, paths)
+}