On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 07:02:00AM -0400, Rick Scott wrote:
> 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.

Forgot about this.

> >  - 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.

Documentation has changed alot since 0.91.0??
Except some cosmetics I can't remember this, but anyway.
The compression ratio shouldn't vary much by adding/removing
a few lines of C code. But if I will have too much time once,
I'll compare the plain trees ...

-- 
Alexander Mai
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