Hello Krasimir, Friday, August 25, 2006, 10:49:50 AM, you wrote:
The usage of something else than cabarc isn't supported directly and will require extra work. Is the lzma algorithm better than bz2? If I
for compression of binary data (and most of windows distribution is executable), lzma is best, cabarc is second and bzip2 is far down. for compression of text data ppmd is best, lzma is slightly worser, and bz2 is again down with cabarc at the same level paying attention to the fact that cabarc and lzma are asymmetric algorithms (i.e. they use more resources on compression but less on decompression) i recommend to use one of them - it will result in faster decompression (and using much less memory compared to ppmd)
have to use something better than cabarc I would prefer more popular compression algorithm.
i think, popularity is not matter if the whole distribution will be unpacked to temporary directory before installation. MSI should support such facility. as a result, installer will be about 20% less in size - important for those of us who still pay their traffic you can download 7-zip program (that is archiver using lzma algorithm) at www.7-zip.com and try yourself to compress whole ghc installed tree: 7z a -r -mx9 archive -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com