[Mingw-users] OT: packaging alternatives

[Cristian A. <dr...@gm...>]

Hello All,

I wish that for the big packages (gcc, bin-utils) there sould be
some archives different from tarballs, some kind of smaller archives,
I've done some tests with 7zip (www.7-zip.org, free, sources with
LGPL license, the best) and I come with the following results:

gcc-3.2-core-20020817-1        7204k -> 3564k (49%)
binutils-2.13-20020808-1       5363k -> 1303k (24%)
binutils-2.13-20020808-1-src  12078k -> 7276k (60%)
w32api-1.5                     1165k ->  606k (52%)

The archives could be made self extractable and still be a lot smaller
than the tarballs, I'm saying this because I have a dialup connection
and it took me a long time to get gcc 3.2 ... I mean that the whole
mingw (gcc + binutils + win32api + runtime) could be the size of
the actual gcc package.

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Best regards,
 Cristian                          mailto:dr...@gm...