The usage of something else than cabarc isn't supported directly and will require extra work. Is the lzma algorithm better than bz2? If I have to use something better than cabarc I would prefer more popular compression algorithm. For Visual Haskell the Nullsoft installer isn't an option because it doesn't support the MSI merge modules.
Cheers, Krasimir On 8/24/06, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Krasimir, Thursday, August 24, 2006, 6:15:17 PM, you wrote: > I wrote simple tool that I am using to build MSI installer for Visual > Haskell. It will not be so hard to extend it to support Cabal. After > that it will be easy to prepare an installer for GHC with optional > libraries. Don't expect it to be ready for 6.6 release! i don't develop it, so i can't complain, but just for case anyone can take it - msi installer uses MS lzx (cabarc) compression algorithm. there is a better compression algorithm, called lzma, which makes compressed GHC bundle about 20% smaller. one can either use MSI installer containing one large lzma archive unpakced to temp dir, or Nullsoft installer that supports lzma directly, to cut off size of installer. it's important for mans like me with modem access/paid traffic -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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