Hello,
the latest nsis releases contain a new additional compression mechanism: Lzma
Lzma's compression is stronger than bzip2's which is used by nsis by default. There is a big impact on ethereal's nsis installer's size.
Lzma reduces the size from about 13.5 MB to 9.3 MB .
Attached patch activates Lzma in nsis.
The current nsis-script for ethereal and this patch require at least nsis-rc1. nsis-rc3 is the most recent version on the nsis website, rc4 is already available on sourceforge.
That's incredible!
Beside the fact that compressing is now *much* slower even on fast machines,
this really reduces the size to the values Lars reports, I just can't believe it :-)
I've checked it in, but put it under the !ifdef MAKENSIS_MODERN_UI as this will usually correspond.
We might get rid of the MAKENSIS_MODERN_UI completely, if the NSIS people will release their 2.0 version ...
Regards, ULFL
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