On 16/06/12 12:25, Dirk Hünniger wrote: > On 06/16/2012 12:03 PM, Svip wrote: >> Interesting, but why is it so large? Is the source code available? > The source code is available here > > http://wb2pdf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wb2pdf/ > > The Binary is large because it contains everything necessery to compile > the generated LaTeX code, which is basically a full installation of MikTeX. > Yours Dirk Hünniger
Have you heard of dependencies? You have to download a 364M file, which extracts to 898M Of those 94M are Linux-specific. The rest includes miktex files, object files, dlls, exes, imagemagick, tcl/tk, Olson db... The real code seem to lie at trunk/wb2pdf/trunk/src, being just 4MB. And if we look at the linux version, it isn't better. It does not only place everything into a /usr/bin subfolder, it copies everything (90M) to /tmp on each run. Completely oblivious of security. Running this program on a shared system is a vulnerability on itself. Why don't you make a package with just the wb2pdf specific files? Also, temporary build files are not needed on a release. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
