I can highly recommend 7-zip to make things smaller still. It
worked wonders for The DevKit ...try it, I think you'll be
pleasantly surprised :) And to boot it's all gpl open-source etc. :))
... and we've supported 'make 7zip' in Rockbox for a while already.
I just don't think the world is ready for us to switch all our
official builds over to 7zip completely instead of zip.
Or am I wrong?
I would say that if the files were distributed as .7z files, then no
- the world is NOT ready :(
But I found that even with a self-extractor stuck on, the .7z.exe
file was still smaller than a gzip file [whether created by 7zip or
gzip] ...I would suggest this be checked for a "Rockbox distro" as it
is (by nature) considerably smaller than anything I have worked on
(relevant to this post).
BC
