Re: additional thougt about my fresh install from CVS

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2005-07-14 05:42:45 +0100 Lloyd Dupont <lloyd@nova-mind.com> wrote:

> previously I had used GNUstep-base-1.10.1-gui-0.9.4.exe which installed 
> base 
> 1.10.1
> from CVS I have a version around 1.10.3 which, according the documentation, 
> has changed only by a few minor bug fixes.
>
> However in 1.10.1 I have
> gnustep-base.dll 2.75 MB
>
> and in the build CVS version I have
> gnustep-base.dll 3.53 MB
>
> and I wonder how come that only minor bug fixes produces such a big 
> increase 
> in size?!?

Most likely the fact that the standard charactersets are now built in to the 
dll rather than having to be loaded at runtime from external resource files 
... part of the process of making things easier for windows users ... so 
they will be able to just copy around the dll rather than the dll plus a 
load of resource files.  Probably, the language resources will always need 
to be copied though ... unless you use the default english.