Re: [ANN] LuaDist Batteries 0.9.7

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 08:58:36AM +0200, steve donovan wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Peter Drahoš <drahosp@gmail.com> wrote:
> > A minimal binary version of batteries-0.9.7 is available for Windows that does not contain any documentation, examples, tests or other optional files (it still contains license files). Additionally all binaries have been striped and packed using UPX. This package is most suitable starting point for distribution of Lua based applications to end users.
> 
> Good work, Peter!  A big effort indeed.
> 
> Just a small point: do we gain much from UPX-packing, seeing as
> usually we would pack as a compressed archive?

Given the price of storage these days, I thought only malware authors
used executable compressors in this day and age.

(Although one project I work on still supports ancient machines, where
the storage is still cheap, but it takes 10 seconds to load our 6MB
binary.)

B.