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RE: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Stephano Mariani" <sk dot mail at btinternet dot com>,"Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>,"Lapo Luchini" <lapo at lapo dot it>
- Cc: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:06:49 +1100
- Subject: RE: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephano Mariani [mailto:sk.mail@btinternet.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 6:30 AM
> To: 'Gerrit P. Haase'; 'Lapo Luchini'
> Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution
> size with UPX)
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I have used UPX a lot recently, and have found it very
> useful; however, I would not recommend compressing all
> binaries with it. Instead, to get a good compromise between
> size and speed, why not just compress those files that are
> the least used, and/or largest.
Compressing any distributed files will be up to the individual
maintainer. It's not something that a hard-and-fast call can be made on.
I think that having it in the distro, for folk to use/test at their own
discretion is useful though.
Rob