Size of Cygwin's distribution

Alejandro Lopez-Valencia dradul at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 9 14:26:17 EDT 2003


On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 11:56:06 -0400, Jason Tishler <jason at tishler.net>
wrote:

>
>On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:20:36AM -0500, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:
>> Yet, I do have a little complain: size. Why is so big? There is a lot
>

Jason, 

>OK, submit a patch to remedy the above and I will consider it.  Note
>that I am just tar-ing up the "make install" and doc trees.

Hmmm... To cygwin's bug tracker/mailing list? Or to you directly?

>Maybe it's time to split the monolithic package into multiple packages?
>However, an important goal to keep in mind is minimizing the "cost" for
>me to generate these packages.  Any solution must be script-able and fit
>into my packaging infrastructure.

Sure, I think what I have in mind can be integrated within your build
script. I'll  give it a spin.

Cheers

Alejo





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