Huge GraphicsMagick Windows zip file

Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:31:05 -0600 (CST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.graphicsmagick.core
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Does anyone here think that it is a bad idea to eliminate the huge ZIP 
file which is currently used to distribute the complete GraphicsMagick 
sources for Windows (GraphicsMagick + delegates)?  We are now 
distributing the sources in both 7-Zip and ZIP format.  The file size 
difference is huge:

ZIP	24,853,145 (24MB)
7-Zip	13,283,378 (13MB)

The huge file results in long download times.

It seems that the main drawback is that Windows users would need to 
download 7-Zip in order to use this source package.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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