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From: Cristian A. <dr...@gm...> - 2002-08-20 22:34:49
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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. -- Best regards, Cristian mailto:dr...@gm... |