[cvsnt] Re: Suggestion concerning the "Precompiled binaries" package...

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Wed Feb 12 13:41:34 GMT 2003


On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:35:56 +0100, "Oliver Giesen" <ogware at gmx.net>
wrote:

>Given that the difference in size between the full setup and the precompiled
>package is currently just about 300k and especially assuming that this
>package is downloaded mostly by people who will use only the client part of
>it (e.g. for use with WinCvs or Tortoise), wouldn't it make sense to strip
>this one down to the client binaries only (i.e. cvs.exe's and
>_protocol.dll's)?
>
There isn't much difference between precompiled binaries + client
only... I actually build such a package for internal release here.

Binaries = 2,072kb
client = 1,878kb (this doesn't include gserver).

Tony



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