On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 3:53:06 PM UTC, Tony Kelman wrote: > > No compiler. Git on Windows is several hundred MB.
Wow, thanks for answering. Are you sure? If it's ok to ask in this thread..: ["Add remove programs" shows Julia at 300 KB.. while in reality, Julia is 460-470 MB.. at almost 6.300 files..] I just checked here: https://git-scm.com/downloads and git seems about 28 MB for the Windows version. That is probably compressed (self-extracting archive), but I would be amazed if it would decompress to 400 MB, and I see "only" actually 180-190 MB, any Idea why so much larger than on Linux? On my Ubuntu Linux git package seems to be (not compressed) 21.3 MB (not sure maybe it just has dependencies.. that have more..). I'm guessing git is just one of the dependencies on Windows (as on Linux), and that the as with "Generic Linux binaries", that is about the same size, all the dependencies must be provided (then the compression is rather good..). [I tried to reinstall Julia, to see if something would get downloaded. Unless Windows has some cache (but I guess not, nothing similar to a package manager yet..?), everything seems included.] I assume then that the .deb (or whatever else on Linux) is much smaller (only with pointers to dependencies). I was thinking if I could distribute a Julia app that starts with downloading (or bundled with) the Julia runtime (the Windows one if on that platform, see another thread I made..) and half a gig seems kind of much to install (or download in compressed form), even excluding the app itself.. I know about the build_executable.jl (that I didn't get running..). I assume that would trim this down by a lot, say for sure exclude git (seems only relevant for developers)? Could you get by something close to like 191376 bytes for /usr/bin/julia + 24197448 bytes for libjulia.so and not much else (except for the parts of the Julia standard library (source code) that you actually use, say you are not using BLAS etc.)?
