On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:10 PM Backwoods BC <completely.and.totally.tr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I suspect that even using a less than optimum ZIP process will still > be size-competitive with the self-extracting version because of not > having to include the overhead of the self-extractor.
I had a little too much faith in ZIP, but 7zip is a winner. I downloaded UPX and used to extract the latest version of setup. Here are the file sizes following re-compression with 7-zip for the original setup and the re-compressed .7z and .zip outputs: 1,381,395 setup-x86_64.exe - 100% 1,319,604 setup-x86_64.7z - 96% 1,795,036 setup-x86_64.zip - 130% -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
