[GRASS-dev] rc7 winggrass binary sizes?

Hi 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.>at least for the daily builds I would guess that swig was gone some builds ago, so that doesn't account for it.>incomplete build or silent improvement?

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.

best regards
Helmut
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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