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Compression (Developers)

posted by Steve Homepage E-mail, US, 14.04.2008, 06:27

> > 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.
bzip2 is available for DOS & Windows. 7-Zip can do bzip2 compression. Info-ZIP 3 will have bzip2 compression (could have it now if somebody wants to compile the beta code). And so on.

> Another thing that is coming is net installers (is that useful at all for
> Dos?)
Useless for me, irrespective of OS. I like to have the whole archive, for inspection before unpacking, and as a backup for offline use.

> > 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.
I've read it, and the situation is still weird. Somebody has been putting DOS packages together - what's the big deal about getting the current UPX before running the stupid script? Or even using 7-Zip to zip tighter than they do with an obviously old archiver.

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