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From: | Quentin Spencer |
Subject: | Re: Why is the installer file so big? |
Date: | Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:33:52 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) |
Matthias Kilian wrote:
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 08:26:06PM +0000, Davide Castellone wrote:Why doesn't the Lilypond installer seem to be compressed? With my very slow 56k Internet connection I find the source-tarball (about 2.5 MB) more easy to download than the installer for GNU/Linux (>11 MB), but the sources must be compiled (all troubles included...). Isn't it possible to download a compressed installer?It *is* compressed. The actual lilypond executable on OpenBSD[1] has a size of 34 MB (compressed: 13MB), and the (compressed) binary package has a size of about 17 MB. Ciao, Kili [1] Not yet officially ported, but it's beeing worked on.
There is one other reason for the size of the installer: it includes more than just Lilypond. Because Lilypond depends on recent versions of ghostscript, as well as other libraries that are not necessarily installed on some Linux systems, the installer includes all of the dependencies so that it will be self-contained and always guaranteed to work properly. If you want to save bandwidth by installing only those dependencies you don't have installed already, some Linux distributions have automated ways of doing this, such as apt-get on Debian and its derivatives and yum on Fedora.
Quentin
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