YES
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dev/abi/ im fairly sure it is mentioned some where in the NSIS documentation http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/ compating the full installer is an extra effort, it would mean an extra requirement and someone would have to write the necessary extra makefiles. Extra complexity means extra things could go wrong. if you are going to write the extra necessary make files please write ones that will produce a compressed version of just the main binary (as opposed to the installer) as well. I will probably compress the main binary when abiword is released and get it put up on sourceforge for people who want abiword on a floppy (ideally we would also have a small dictionary and maybe one or two things on a second disk). ignore some of what i have written above, i realise now you are only talking about compressing the binary not the installer. I only think size matters in very specific situations. Hard Disk space is cheap and plentiful (especially relative to the size of abiword and any system capable of running windows in the first place). I dont want to introduce unecessary extra complexity, as i cannot predict the results, and there is still the problem of writing the necessary makefiles. Later Alan On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Andrew Venier wrote: > Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 13:03:22 -0500 > From: Andrew Venier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Abiword Dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: UPX to compact executable? > > Has anyone given thought to using UPX ( http://upx.sourceforce.net ) to > compact the AbiWord executable before packaging the binary > distribution? > > I've tried it on Windows. The results are great, and the size of the > installed AbiWord.exe file is cut in half. > > Anyhow, just thought I'd mention it.
