Re: Better compression for the Windows installer

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:04:03PM -0700, Fyodor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:37:36PM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
> > How does this sound? At the end of this message is the output of
> > makensis.exe using the different options.
>
> It sounds wonderful!  Thanks for testing.  As you know from our
> investigation today, the Nmap Windows executables are the biggest
> bandwidth hogs on the site.  I like the idea of enabling this on the
> Pcap installer too if it helps.

I committed lzma compression for the nmap installer. Here are the
results of testing it on the winpcap-nmap installer.

zlib         720288
lzma /SOLID  433535  60.19% of zlib

And here is the effect on the overall nmap installer.

zlib-compressed winpcap-nmap  14225186
lzma-compressed winpcap-nmap  13947278  98.05% of version with zlib-
                                        compressed winpcap-nmap, 82.91%
                                        of original zlib everything.

David Fifield
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