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From: Backwoods BC <completely.and.totally.trash@gmail.com>
Cc: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Setup not working
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 15:02:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKwdsS86-=-Gvw7EuvR056Psun9yRKiPo9h-LkH8TKixi7Fsug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwdsS_H+vDpBhoaCY7vo4KcYAA8o2Uj3RS7+e5Qbp9tDmryRA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:10 PM Backwoods BC
<completely.and.totally.trash@gmail.com> wrote:
> I suspect that even using a less than optimum ZIP process will still
> be size-competitive with the self-extracting version because of not
> having to include the overhead of the self-extractor.

I had a little too much faith in ZIP, but 7zip is a winner. I
downloaded UPX and used to extract the latest version of setup. Here
are the file sizes following re-compression with 7-zip for the
original setup and the re-compressed .7z and .zip outputs:

1,381,395 setup-x86_64.exe - 100%
1,319,604 setup-x86_64.7z -  96%
1,795,036 setup-x86_64.zip - 130%

      reply	other threads:[~2023-02-28 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-28 12:23 Albert Cornelius
2023-02-28 21:15 ` Brian Cowan
2023-02-28 22:10   ` Backwoods BC
2023-02-28 23:02     ` Backwoods BC [this message]

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