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posted by marcov, 13.04.2008, 23:42

> > What maintainers do, and what the stand of the core developers is can
> > differ.
(should have been, "what maintainers did in the past")

> True. But clever?

Well, there is no maintainer anymore for several years, so can't ask them why they thought it was useful.

> I'm one of those who thinks that compression is critical
> for download packages,

Sure. But everything is already ZIPed. Better donate a Pascal bzip2 decompressor, and the dl sizes will decrease more, and it can be included with FPC, so other FPC programmers also benefit from it.

Moreover, we don't have to distribute UPX anymore then, so that further decreases download size.

Another thing that is coming is net installers (is that useful at all for Dos?)

> > The dos release building script are probably (literally) last century.
> I
> > doubt they were revisited in recent years
>
> They don't need to do much more than get the current UPX. Seriously -
> don't they know that other progs get updated too?
Who? Read the thread, there is no dos maintainer that does such things. The upx decision is actually from win32 related discussions.

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