Matthias Kilian wrote:
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 08:26:06PM +0000, Davide Castellone wrote:
Why doesn't the Lilypond installer seem to be compressed? With
my very slow 56k Internet connection I find the source-tarball
(about 2.5 MB) more easy to download than the installer for
GNU/Linux (>11 MB), but the sources must be compiled (all troubles
included...). Isn't it possible to download a compressed installer?
It *is* compressed. The actual lilypond executable on OpenBSD[1]
has a size of 34 MB (compressed: 13MB), and the (compressed) binary
package has a size of about 17 MB.
Ciao,
Kili
[1] Not yet officially ported, but it's beeing worked on.
There is one other reason for the size of the installer: it includes
more than just Lilypond. Because Lilypond depends on recent versions of
ghostscript, as well as other libraries that are not necessarily
installed on some Linux systems, the installer includes all of the
dependencies so that it will be self-contained and always guaranteed to
work properly. If you want to save bandwidth by installing only those
dependencies you don't have installed already, some Linux distributions
have automated ways of doing this, such as apt-get on Debian and its
derivatives and yum on Fedora.
Quentin
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