<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Hi! I agree: uncompressed CAB and using best nsis compression is the way. I had a patch where I did opposite, but I will provide a patch to reach our golas: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/24411/cab_lzx_compress.diff">http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/24411/cab_lzx_compress.diff</a> Is it possible to generate templates during installation time (so we store only one template and replace the language dependent files only in the template)? For templates we can use common template folders (non language dependent folder structure). KAMI 2010-12-07 18:55 keltezéssel, Michael Meeks írta: <blockquote cite="mid:1291744519.23567.57.camel@lenovo-w500" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi there, So - as we all know, RC1 is too large; and there are a complicated set of reasons why that is so, which includes some tradeoff between install time disk space, download size[1], fairness between languages, mirror capacity, build and up-load times, and so on and so on. Anyhow - the good news is, that - having analyzed our .cab file by expanding it, re-compressing each file individually (with zip), and then analysing the results - it seems there are some fairly obvious size wins that are possible. I've uploaded a (2Mb) spreadsheet here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://users.freedesktop.org/~michael/sizes.ods">http://users.freedesktop.org/~michael/sizes.ods</a> 40% of our size is endless duplicates of impress templates (one per language) - ~none of which have any significant translated content in them; we should simply ship one copy of each template instead. I believe some packagers do this on Linux already. Similarly, ~20% of the remaining size is (once again multiply duplicated) .ott files for the Wizards - which should be substantially identical - with a very little translation sprinkled on top. However - these will require coding fixes (or plain removal for 3.4 if the size is too significant). Then another ~20% of the remaining size is license files in English duplicated again and again per language. Similarly, if we cut our themes down to just two, we can save around 14 Mb on the compressed image, and so on and so on. Of course - this requires real work; it is not just a matter of wishing for it :-) but it it is (I hope) all quite do-able. We should be able to get some of these improvements into 3.4, and more into 3.5. Ergo - I am still very optimistic that we can ship a windows installer / exe that is closer to 200Mb than 300 - without unreasonable effort. Anyhow - at least for RC1 - we have (if it can be download) the code that everyone will be running - and which is the thing that needs testing - major regressions / crasher bugs appreciated :-) HTH, Michael. [1] - the bigger the uncompressed .cab, the better NSIS' lzma compression can remove duplication eg. </pre> </blockquote> <div class="moz-signature">-- <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title>Szalai Kálmán</title> <pre wrap=""><img alt="KAMI911" title="KAMI911" src="cid:part1.05050101.08010507@gmail.com" style="border: 0px solid; width: 178px; height: 178px;" hspace="4" vspace="2" align="left">Best regards, Kálmán „KAMI” Szalai | 神 | kami911 [at] gmail [dot] com My favorite projects: <a href="http://ooop.sf.net/">OxygenOffice Professional</a> - office suite - for everybody | <a href="http://hun.sf.net/">Magyarul</a> - In Hungarian <a href="http://bit.ly/10ucTR">Blog</a> | <a href="http://bit.ly/eYZO6">Support</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/gJuJZ">Follow me</a>, if <a href="http://bit.ly/kDocB">you can</a> </pre> </div> </body> </html>