Re: [Lcms-user] Lcms distribution package size

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

On Tue, 2 Jun 2020, mar...@li... wrote:

> Hello Bob, 
> This is because the PDFs. I use ms word and print to PDF and the result is huge files.
> 
> I could make a tarball without the doc folders and this will squeeze the size in about 10 Mb less. 
> 
> Someting like lcms2-2.10_no_doc.tar.gz would work?

Certainly breaking out generated large files which are not needed to 
build or use the distribution into a different archive file would 
help.

I am not sure what the impact would be for Linux (or other) 
distributions such as if they bundle these PDF files into an 
installable documentation package.

> I guess most  people just want  the sources for automated builds.

In some cases.  But for many users of binary distributions they 
do not care about the sources at all because only a few people build 
the binary packages they install.  Users of source-based distributions 
would care about source.

Regardless out of the packages that GraphicsMagick directly uses, Lcms 
has become the package with the largest source distribution file. 
FreeType may be a good model to follow given that they distribute 
three different archive files per release, one of which contains the 
documentation.

Bob
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