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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:42:28 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: setup w/char* eliminated is big
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*please* make sure that the '-' vs. '_' fix is in before releasing the 
new setup.  I've been sitting on the bzip2 update waiting on this...

(Also, the localdir-is-on-remote-share fix would be nice, but it isn't 
as urgent as the '_' thing.)

--Chuck


Robert Collins wrote:

> Ok,
>  finally got some breathing time.
> 
> Setup with char * eliminated is ~350K. Ouch.
> 
> This is why I've not committed my patch yet (I've been trying to see
> *where* the extra 100K appeared from).
> 
> Chris - is this a problem? IMO it's still a tiny fraction of the total
> distribution size, and we're reducing the number of reasons a setup
> update is *required* as we make /etc/profile and so on into packages.
> 
> If this is not a problem, I expect we can release a new setup after the
> weekend (or even at the beginning - whatever makes more sense).
> 
> Rob
> 
>