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Date: | Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:52:01 -0500 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX |
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:48:13PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: >> Uhmm, UPX should be part of the distribution first, as a maintained >> pacakge, before folk start packing distributed binaries with it. Do we >> have a volunteer to maintain UPX? > >UPX is quite cross-platform: you can use win32 version to package lonux >a.out such as linux verison to package win32 PE. >Moreover an UPX-compressed EXE is completely self-sufficient from UPX >itself, has no memory overhead and decompresses very very fast (10Mb/sec >on the author's Pentium133 as upx.sourceforge.net says). >But if a cygwin native version is needed nonetheless I could volunteer to >package it. I think this is a useful addition to the cygwin packages but I don't see why it should be a requirement that it be available as a package before people start using it. It sounds from your description like I'll be able to run this on linux, where I make all of my packages. Is that right? That's the only way this will be useful for me. cgf
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