[Lcms-user] Lcms distribution package size

[Bob F. <bfr...@si...>]

It seems that the lcms distribution packages have grown to 
astonishingly large sizes given what the software is.  It used to be 
pretty small.  Lcms2 has grown from 3.3M up to its current size of 
15M.

The growth in the package size impacts GraphicsMagick since 
GraphicsMagick ships lcms sources almost as is for the Windows builds. 
I put this into the GraphicsMagick source repository and so the source 
repository becomes even larger.  Then the full GraphicsMagick sources 
for Windows becomes astonishingly large.

Is there a way to make the distribution package smaller?  For example, 
split source files, sample files, formatted documentation?

This is the growth that I see in lcms2 distribution file sizes:

% ls -lthgr lcms2*
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         3.3M May 15  2010 lcms2-2.0a.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         3.6M Dec  1  2010 lcms2-2.1.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         4.1M Jun 10  2011 lcms2-2.2.zip
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         4.0M Jun 10  2011 lcms2-2.2.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         4.3M Dec 23  2011 lcms2-2.3.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         4.3M Dec 23  2011 lcms2-2.3.zip
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         4.1M Sep 10  2012 lcms2-2.4.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         4.2M Sep 10  2012 lcms2-2.4.zip
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         6.7M Jul  1  2013 lcms2-2.5.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         6.8M Jul  1  2013 lcms2-2.5.zip
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         4.4M Mar 17  2014 lcms2-2.6.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         4.5M Mar 17  2014 lcms2-2.6.zip
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         6.2M Mar 21  2015 lcms2-2.7.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         6.4M Mar 21  2015 lcms2-2.7.zip
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         6.4M Jul 20  2016 lcms2-2.8.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 ftp         6.5M Jul 20  2016 lcms2-2.8.zip
-r--r--r--   1 ftp          11M Dec  7 09:48 lcms2-2.9.zip
-r--r--r--   1 ftp          10M Dec  7 09:48 lcms2-2.9.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 ftp          15M May 31 11:38 lcms2-2.10.tar.gz
-r--r--r--   1 ftp          15M May 31 11:39 lcms2-2.10.zip

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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