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Re: Why is the installer file so big?
From: |
Matthias Kilian |
Subject: |
Re: Why is the installer file so big? |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:12:55 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.2i |
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.