On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:15:25PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > Ledit (with -custom) is Size: 98054. > Ocaml-base is Size: 166000. > Ledit (without -custom) is Size: 25850. > > So we gain 73Ko in the archive for i386 alone and if we multiply this > for all supported archs, some of them even having bigger object size > (powerpc for example) we may well save around 1 Mo archive space for > this program alone, not counting the time needed to build it on all > archives. The downside is that people wanting ledit and not having any > use for ocaml would have to download 197850 of .debs instead of just > 98054. > > Notice that this works well because ledit is built bytecode only, since > it is not a speed hungry program.
Mmm, i just built and uploaded an Architecture: all ledit (1.10-6), let's see how this goes, and we can always go back if people disagree with this move. When i get time, i may well experiment the bytecode/nativecode package split with ledit. Friendly, Sven Luther
