Re: [Libreoffice] Windows installer size reduction effort - the compression theory

2011-03-07 Thread Fridrich Strba
Hi, all, On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 09:41 +, Michael Meeks wrote: Perhaps one thing you could do - would be to help dung out the instsetoo_native/util dmake file, and check the tooling - such that we can build several install sets in parallel - that would help particularly wrt.

Re: [Libreoffice] Windows installer size reduction effort - the compression theory

2011-03-03 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Kami, On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 00:14 +0100, Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai wrote: Compression time (in the tinderbox) was: runtime: 1087.37 (minutes) now: runtime: 1232.32 (minutes) So it takes another 2:30 or so extra ? sounds like quite a lot. Perhaps one thing you could do - would

Re: [Libreoffice] Windows installer size reduction effort - the compression theory

2011-03-02 Thread Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai
Compression time (in the tinderbox) was: runtime: 1087.37 (minutes) now: runtime: 1232.32 (minutes) Is it okay for us? Or it is too big penalty? I asked Fridrich to make available the latest tb Windows build for download. I would like to check the installer size and performance. KAMI -- Best

Re: [Libreoffice] Windows installer size reduction effort - the compression theory

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Wols, On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 00:21 +, Wols Lists wrote: I checked on wikipedia after I posted and Huffman is actually SIXTY years old! Set as a class project, and published in 1952. I tried to gently correct your thesis that Huffman is -the- optimal compression algorithm for all

Re: [Libreoffice] Windows installer size reduction effort - the compression theory

2011-03-01 Thread Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai
Hi Michael, 2011-02-28 13:16 keltezéssel, Michael Meeks írta: Hi Kami, Wow - I'm so sorry, I missed your sexy mail for a week; that sucks - over-much merging on another branch :-) Tor has been on FTO, and Fridrich with his head down releasing 3.3.1 (and the Novell LibreOffice product)

Re: [Libreoffice] Windows installer size reduction effort - the compression theory

2011-02-28 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Kami, Wow - I'm so sorry, I missed your sexy mail for a week; that sucks - over-much merging on another branch :-) Tor has been on FTO, and Fridrich with his head down releasing 3.3.1 (and the Novell LibreOffice product) - which in part explains the lack of response to you (and Steven)

Re: [Libreoffice] Windows installer size reduction effort - the compression theory

2011-02-28 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Wols, On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 18:04 +, Wols Lists wrote: So - personally, I find it amazing that ZIP is better than LZMA - ever, it is such an older compression algorithm, and this flies in the face of everything I've seen in practise with it [ eg. we use LZMA for our RPMs in

Re: [Libreoffice] Windows installer size reduction effort - the compression theory

2011-02-28 Thread Wols Lists
On 28/02/11 21:51, Michael Meeks wrote: Why the surprise? How long has Huffman been around - 30 years? 40? And you CANNOT do better than Huffman (there are other equally as good algorithms, though). Ho hum; glad to know Huffman compression is optimal ;-) (personally I'd go for

Re: [Libreoffice] Windows installer size reduction effort - the compression theory

2011-02-21 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Kalman, On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 15:15 +0100, Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai wrote: I am sure we can shrink the installer more with better compression Hah - so, of course Fridrich and Tor have looked into this - and naturally you are right :-) there is a lot we can do. Clearly compressing things

[Libreoffice] Windows installer size reduction effort - the compression theory

2011-02-20 Thread Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai
Hi, I am sure we can shrink the installer more with better compression settings. Unfortunately I am not able to try these theory now because I have problem with Windows based build system. So any participation related to this topic is welcome The current situation: We are using double

[Libreoffice] Windows installer size reduction effort - the compression theory

2011-02-20 Thread Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai
Hi, After my last mail I created the required patches (3) for already built LibO. A diffed against 3-3. Please test is if possible. Please check the attached patches. -- Best regards, Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai | 神 | kami911 [at] gmail [dot] com My favorite projects: OxygenOffice Professional