Re: make the cvs build zips smaller?

2006-05-04 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: can he lng's be moved to a seperate part of the dowload page? (have a drop list with the available languages, and another for the targets, then a button and it will upload the correct file to u..?) That would make it a pain for the user, having to download both the binar

Re: make the cvs build zips smaller?

2006-05-04 Thread Jonathan Gordon
another reason to move lng and wps out of the zip is because even if ppl do use a different language from english.. they would only use one other file.. so y put them all in the zip.. sort of the same for wps... and fonts. can he lng's be moved to a seperate part of the dowload page? (have a drop

Re: make the cvs build zips smaller?

2006-05-04 Thread bk
I did some quick and dirty compression testing today on an H120 build zip (size is in kbyte, rounded to the nearest 4k): (original) rockbox.zip2046 (gzip -9) rockbox.tar.gz 1794 (12%) (bzip2)rockbox.tar.bz21802 (12%) (p7zip)rockbox.tar.7z 1297 (37%) (rzip -9) rockboz.

Re: P#5289 comment by RaeNye: Dual Boot for X5

2006-05-04 Thread Mustapha Senhaji
Hi, RaeNye, great to hear you was/are working on dual-bootloader for X5.Please join us on Rockbox IRC for talk about this with LinusN and Bagder...I'll check this night on my X5 if that's works well...(working atm). Thanks for your works.2006/5/4, Flyspray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The following task ha

Re: make the cvs build zips smaller?

2006-05-04 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Jonathan Gordon wrote: langs arnt device dependant... arnt they just text files? .lng files _are_ target dependent since we added langv2 support. And in repsonse to the previous mail: we already only include WPSes/themes in packages that are suitable for the particular ta

Re: make the cvs build zips smaller?

2006-05-04 Thread Jonathan Gordon
langs arnt device dependant... arnt they just text files? On 04/05/06, Manuel Dejonghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/4/06, bk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me the smarter solution would be to separate the binary & > lang components from the WPS/themes/fonts parts (as was discussed),

Re: make the cvs build zips smaller?

2006-05-04 Thread Manuel Dejonghe
On 5/4/06, bk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems to me the smarter solution would be to separate the binary & lang components from the WPS/themes/fonts parts (as was discussed), rather than just switching to 7z. BTW: since bins and langs are device-dependant and packaged like this, the wps cou

Re: make the cvs build zips smaller?

2006-05-04 Thread bk
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 07:38 +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > Yeps. In my quick and naive zip/7zip compression tests I did a number of > months ago, the typical gain for a rockbox.zip was in fact more than 30%. Since rockbox.zip tends to be pretty small I imagine it's skewing the results a bit (30