Re: [BUG] source tarball is huge

[John Spencer <maillist-nmap () barfooze de>]

On 09/08/2012 08:54 PM, John Spencer wrote:
> nmap-6.01.tar.bz2: 22MB
>
> that's about 30 times bigger than the PCC C compiler
>
> 20 MB of the unpacked data are apparently "os x and win build envs"
>
> the tarball has copies of libpcre, libpcap and dozens of other packages
> in it, which is usually considered "A Bad Idea (TM)"
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Why_not_bundle_dependencies
>
> please provide a tarball that does not contain "os x and win build
> envs", and no embedded libraries.
> if libpcre is needed, check for it in configure and throw an error if
> not found.
> same for libpcap et al.
>
> maybe you can make a "everything included" source tarball and a "sources
> only" one ?
>
> Regards, J.S.

thinking about it again, it seems to be the best option to provide a 
tarball for broken platforms like crap os x and winblows which include 
the kitchen sink including a compiler [emphasis added], and one for 
linux which only contains the nmap and related things like ncat and 
libraries from insecure.org.

there really is no point in including things like lua, prce or pcap 
which almost any linux system has already installed. and the mac/windows 
workaround crap is definitely not desired.

while we're at it i would welcome a tar.xz for even smaller filesize.
i'm pretty sure that nmap plus its own core libs fit into a 1MB xz 
tarball, once the trash has been removed.


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