Re: [Antigen-users] Large installations with antigen

[Jarl S. <jar...@ca...>]

Thanks John,

If there is anything I can do to help just drop me a line.

Yours

Jarl

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 08:47 +0000, John Taylor wrote:
> Hi Jarl,
> You're not alone in this problem - other users have reported it too.
> I'm currently rewriting Antigen to make it more efficient (and more 
> flexible) and I'll do my best to make sure that the new version copes 
> with large installers better.
> In the meantime, I'll see what I can do to speed things up, since it's 
> clearly an issue for a lot of people.
> Best wishes,
> John
> 
> Jarl Stefansson wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Im making an installer with ant/antigen to replace InstallAnywhere and I
> >am running into problems when dealing with large files. My installation
> >artifacts are contained in several zip files which total 100mb+ and this
> >is where antigen seems to run into some problems. It seems that when
> >antigen is initially run it extracts all the files from the jar into a
> >temporary directory, for some reason this takes close to 15 minutes for
> >100mb.
> >
> >Does anyone know of a workaround or what the problem is ?
> >
> >Yours
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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Jarl Stefansson
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Calidris
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