Re: [ANN] LuaDist Batteries 0.9.7

[Peter Drahoš <drahosp@...>]

On 25 Oct, 2012, at 8:58 , steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> 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?

In context of the minimal release the reduction of size is rather significant. UPX reports reduction to about 30% of the original size for almost all binaries. Some libraries (most notably libwx of wxwidgets) are reduced to a fraction of their original size (12MB to about 2.3MB). For the 1.0 release I will only UPX pack the minimal release, other releases will only be stripped to avoid the false positives on some antivirus software. This should satisfy most requirements as sometimes the reduced size is beneficial for some end-users (including myself).

Some data: (Windows only)
Release 0.9.1 - 74.8MB, no IUP, only stripped
Release 0.9.7 - 45.7MB, UPX packed
Minimal Release 0.9.7 - 14.5MB, UPX packed, no optional files

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