[GRASS-dev] Re: rc7 winggrass binary sizes?

[Hamish]

Hamish:
> >  while checking for presence of binary installers
> > before updating the RSS feed on the home page, 
> > I notice that both the wingrass nightly build and rc7
> > setup.exe are now about 55mb down from 88mb some days before.

Helmut wrote:
> see r43316-r43318
> best compression algorithm and optimal (de-)compression rate
> I've tested different compressions algorithms delivered by
> the nsis-installer and played also with the dictionary size for
> compression.
> 
> lzma and DictSize 64 produces the smallest wingrass-installer. before
> that changes, the zlib-compression was used.

quite remarkable.


good times,
Hamish