Re: Huge GraphicsMagick Windows zip file

I suspect that most users do not have a 7-Zip solution on their
computer - I know I don't,for example...

Leonard

On 2/20/08, Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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>  GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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