setup.exe 2.852 size ballooned

setup.exe 2.852 size ballooned

[Warren Young]

Why did setup.exe just get 7x larger, relative to 2.850?

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Re: setup.exe 2.852 size ballooned

[Achim Gratz]

Am 27.10.2014 um 23:40 schrieb Warren Young:
> Why did setup.exe just get 7x larger, relative to 2.850?

Not compressed by UPX, I suppose.


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Re: setup.exe 2.852 size ballooned

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Oct 28 09:12, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Am 27.10.2014 um 23:40 schrieb Warren Young:
> >Why did setup.exe just get 7x larger, relative to 2.850?
> 
> Not compressed by UPX, I suppose.

Not stripped before compressing, actually.  Fixed now.

Thanks for the report, Warren.


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Re: setup.exe 2.852 size ballooned

[Achim Gratz]

Corinna Vinschen writes:
> Not stripped before compressing, actually.  Fixed now.

I once offered a Makefile patch to add a target to make stripped and
compressed binaries.  Cristopher didn't like it, but I could offer it
again since I've kept it on a local branch.


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Re: setup.exe 2.852 size ballooned

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Oct 30 17:46, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > Not stripped before compressing, actually.  Fixed now.
> 
> I once offered a Makefile patch to add a target to make stripped and
> compressed binaries.  Cristopher didn't like it, but I could offer it
> again since I've kept it on a local branch.

Sure, please go ahead.


Thanks,
Corinna

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