On 01-Sep-00 at 04:17, Alexander Mai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Now that 0.91.8 is out, I had a look at the archive sizes and found
> some surprising facts:
>
> - lesstif-current is bigger than lesstif-0.91.8
current is simply a tarball of a working tree. The nightly also processes the
man pages into html before the tarball is made. This is probably the major
reason for the size difference.
>
> Seems the reason is that current contains the CVS/ info directories.
> I think we should change this. Also I didn't verify that this does
> explain the whole difference
current should really be made with "make dist" the same as the releases are.
But since both will need to be re-thought for SF....
>
> - the source archives have sizes
> 0.91.4 < 0.91.0 < 0.91.8
>
> No idea here - except our distributions vary in their level
> of completeness?!
The documentation has been changing alot. I think you would have to compare the
unzip'ed versions before you could make any analysis.
>
> --
> Alexander Mai
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