Re: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)

2002-03-16 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Earnie, Am 2002-03-15 um 14:28 schriebst du: Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Lapo Luchini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:48 PM But if a cygwin native version is needed nonetheless I could volunteer to package it. IMO we

Re: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)

2002-03-16 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Christopher, Am 2002-03-15 um 17:55 schriebst du: Not that i'm against inclusion of upx to cygwin distro -- it's a normal package like many others after all, but i really don't understand why somebody would want to use such a program. Excellent points. This is, IMO, an argument against

Re: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)

2002-03-16 Thread Lapo Luchini
We should not precompress delivered binaries (besides setup.exe maybe?). It will not reduce the size of the packages very much. We could maybe include in the UPX file also two shell scripts: compress everything and decompress everything, just to ease things to users. -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini

Re: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)

2002-03-16 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Lapo, Am 2002-03-16 um 12:16 schriebst du: We should not precompress delivered binaries (besides setup.exe maybe?). It will not reduce the size of the packages very much. We could maybe include in the UPX file also two shell scripts: compress everything and decompress everything,

RE: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)

2002-03-16 Thread Stephano Mariani
:) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase Sent: Saturday, 16 March 2002 2:38 PM To: Lapo Luchini Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX) Hallo Lapo, Am 2002-03-16 um

RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)

2002-03-15 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Lapo Luchini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:48 PM But if a cygwin native version is needed nonetheless I could volunteer to package it. IMO we should have a fully self-hosted distribution. At the moment, with the _single_

Re: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)

2002-03-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Lapo Luchini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:48 PM But if a cygwin native version is needed nonetheless I could volunteer to package it. IMO we should have a fully self-hosted distribution. At the

RE: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)

2002-03-15 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 12:28 AM Does UPX come with an API library that you can just use in setup? That's a nice idea, and on a related note I'm considering compressing setup.exe with UPX once it's a

RE: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)

2002-03-15 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: egor duda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 12:42 AM To: Robert Collins Not that i'm against inclusion of upx to cygwin distro -- it's a normal package like many others after all, but i really don't understand why somebody

Re: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)

2002-03-15 Thread Roger
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 08:42, egor duda wrote: Hi! Friday, 15 March, 2002 Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RC I vote for including UPX... and Lapo makes two. Do we need a third? And RC are there any objections? Does anybody ever tried to measure if upx impose any performance