Agreed, compression can help but the point is all MacRuby applications have a base-size of 30MB, while other dynamically linked Objective-C applications that do the same task are a lot smaller. Our application is 30MB before we write anything. I think thats the problem, even with compression(although I agree, it helps a lot).
Thanks, Rob On 15 Apr 2010, at 19:16, Jakub Suder wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 16:05, robert gleeson <r...@flowof.info> wrote: >> I agree, 100%, with Dave Baldwin. It would be nice to see the overall size >> of a MacRuby application reduced to somewhere between 5-8MB because of the >> reasons he listed. I don't think MacRuby can be a big player until we can >> distribute smaller apps. > > I'm not saying it wouldn't be better if the app size was less than it > is now, but IMHO it isn't that bad at at the moment. The app I write > weighs 32 MB total (30 MB of that is MacRuby...), but after packing it > into a zip it's only 11 MB. Looking at my "installers" directory, > that's not a terribly big size - TextMate is about the same size, > Adium is twice that, Skype is over 4 times more... > > Jakub Suder > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
