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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: make the cvs build zips smaller?Re: make the cvs build zips smaller?
From: Bluechip <csbluechip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 14:25:27 +0100 I can highly recommend 7-zip to make things smaller still. It worked wonders for The DevKit ...try it, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised :) And to boot it's all gpl open-source etc. :)) >>ive setup my computer with linux and moved it downstairs so it can >>stay on 24/7 so youve got another build server if u want it (celly >>2.4ghz, 512mb ram), the only downside is that my uploads are capped >>to about 20KB/s so uploading the 2mb zip actually takes longer than >>compiling... > >We're on 45 builds in the CVS table right now, and only 12 or so of >them transfer anything back. But yes, adding a 100 second transfer >time to the single build is of course no fun. > >>so, my suggestion (also happens to decrease your bandwidth usage >>also) is to strip the non-comiled stuff into a seperate zip for all >>targets.. (fonts, docs, wps, cfg, etc). removing this from the >>build dropped 1mb off the zip size... which would work out a fairly >>big bandwidth saving for everyone seen as these dont really need to >>be updated frequently... (actally english.lang prob would need to >>be in the zip...) > >This is repeatedly discussed and we've been planning on doing >something like this for the 3.0 release. I can't say I have all >details sorted out in my head yet as in how this will affect users >and how users will know when they want to get a full package and a >subset package. > >But I don't think having the cvs builds do "light" packages is a >solution to anything as there will still be people who want to >download a full version and then we need to offer such ones. > >Doing full/light packages will help the users who download packages, >not build servers that create them. > >-- > Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.rockbox.org/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/ Received on 2006-05-03 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |