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Compression (Developers)

posted by marcov, 14.04.2008, 11:03

> > > 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.

I know. And in lib form for djgpp, so linking compat with FPC too. But we in generally don't use external codebases in base. Hence the "in pascal" remark.

> > 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.
We want to significantly increase the distribution, and also with cross purposes. On Dos that is not a problem, but there is a _lot_ of cross stuff and other packages for win32.

> 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.
What will you use to decompress? The archive decompressor is integrated into the installer.

Anyway the people that package dos, used to do that already as a favour, and it hasn't been always the same person. And I'd rather like them to strip upx all together, which involves the removing of the file from the distro and passing UPXPROG=echo to make.

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