In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > magnitude of 4-5MB both in ZIP as unpacked. (compare, doc-html.zip is now > > 10MB > > _packed_ and tens of MB's uncompressed) > > Just thought I would let you know, I downloaded the doc-html.tar.gz, > extracted it, and then repacked it using 7-zip. As a solid archive I got > it down to 1.9MB!
Depacking a html zip on a slow machine takes over tens of minutes already. 7zip would make it worse. The whole idea is to get rid of the depacked files all together, and a solid archive is useless as help format. > 7-zip has been around for quite some time. Maybe the releases can drop the > standard .zip and replace that with .7z Maybe. Just provide a FPC implementation of the depacker for use in the various installers, and we can test with it. If the memory and CPU requirements are doable, why not? > I noticed most of the .tar.gz is even smaller than the .zip archives. > Just my 2c worth... :-) .tar.gz's are solid in a way too, so that is no surpise in this case. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
