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Subject: | RE: reducing binary distribution size with UPX |
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Date: | Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:22:30 +1100 |
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Thread-Topic: | reducing binary distribution size with UPX |
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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
To: | "Lapo Luchini" <lapo AT lapo DOT it>, "CygWin-Apps" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com> |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Lapo Luchini [mailto:lapo AT lapo DOT it] > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:55 PM > To: CygWin-Apps > Subject: Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX > > > > No sideeffects;) > > I'm using it since a year now. > > Fetch my binary: http://familiehaase.de/cywgin/compression/upx/ > > rsync.exe 2.5.4-1 shrinks from 167936 down to 72704, and .bz2 > archive too shrinks from 95901 down to 94571 (I didn't expect > this one)... anyone has objections if I pack future rsync > version with UPX, or it's "green"? Uhmm, UPX should be part of the distribution first, as a maintained pacakge, before folk start packing distributed binaries with it. Do we have a volunteer to maintain UPX? Rob
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