Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Sender:	cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-apps-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#faqs>
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
content-class:	urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	RE: reducing binary distribution size with UPX
X-MimeOLE:	Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3
Date:	Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:22:30 +1100
Message-ID:	<FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA760014BC6@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
Thread-Topic:	reducing binary distribution size with UPX
Thread-Index:	AcHMGdWVPkvG7bQ7RNqmZyPpPUV+5QAAifgg
From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Lapo Luchini" <lapo AT lapo DOT it>, "CygWin-Apps" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
X-MIME-Autoconverted:	from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g2FCMbO23119

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lapo Luchini [mailto:lapo AT lapo DOT it] 
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 10:55 PM
> To: CygWin-Apps
> Subject: Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX
> 
> 
> > No sideeffects;)
> > I'm using it since a year now.
> > Fetch my binary: http://familiehaase.de/cywgin/compression/upx/
> 
> rsync.exe 2.5.4-1 shrinks from 167936 down to 72704, and .bz2 
> archive too shrinks from 95901 down to 94571 (I didn't expect 
> this one)... anyone has objections if I pack future rsync 
> version with UPX, or it's "green"?

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?

Rob

- Raw text -