Em Sexta-feira 16. Outubro 2009, às 08.22.02, você escreveu: > On Oct 15, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > Em Sexta-feira 16. Outubro 2009, às 08.08.35, você escreveu: > >> Then I have another natural question: Why do you have a separate > >> install for those on Mac OS X, and not on Windows? > > > > Because the Windows files aren't that big and they compress much > > better. So we > > have one 180 MB download for Windows with Visual Studio and 208 MB > > with MinGW. > > The equivalent on Mac would be 294+154 MB. > > Ok, fair enough. Do you think that it's because of the multiple > architectures in the universal binaries for Mac OS X? Or do you see > any other potential explanation for that difference?
It's definitely the universal build.
Each Mac package contains 4 architectures, in 2 builds of Qt (debug and
release), whereas the Windows packages contain only 1 architecture.
Both packages contain Cocoa in 64-bit (PPC64 and x86-64). The difference is the
32-bit architectures.
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