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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: zip / fontzip / fullzipRe: zip / fontzip / fullzip
From: Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:56:47 -0500 Why not have the dailies done as "fullzip"? On 5/10/06, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_rockbox.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 10 May 2006, Manuel Dejonghe wrote: > > > Sounds good. Maybe the same could be done with wps/themes ? This would > > of course make a wps-pack per unit (or unit-class). > > I built a zip on ipod video to get a large amount of WPSs to check the > size > difference. > > Removing all themes and WPS files from the full zip saves 148514 bytes > from > the latest CVS version. I don't think this little difference is worth the > effort of having lots of scattered themes/wps packages etc. > > Also, when we improve the wpsbuild.pl script we should get less "bad" > themes > built and bundled (thus even more reducing the gain of a separate wps > package). The current wpsbuild includes all WPS that fit on the screen, > which > means it includes lots of "too small" WPSs that nobody actually wants to > use. > > > How are we going to help new users to understand that they need to > install > > two packs ? > > Release packages should be made fullzip. Daily/bleeding downloaders will > have > to read the upcoming big notice at the top of the screen I guess. > > > We could tell them to install 2.5 / 3.0, then to "upgrade" with a daily > > build. (I hope the font format change was before 2.5 !?!) > > Yeps, the current font format was introduced in August 2004. > > -- > Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.rockbox.org/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/ > Received on 2006-05-10 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |