On Jan 22, 2008 9:45 AM, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, I have no idea if this is true, or if it was auto- > generated and is spam, or what, but some people here might care. >
I care. I just tried this and indeed it reduced the size of the sage-vmware tarball by over 200MB. Thanks Lou Blaine for suggesting this! > Nick > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: lou blaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: January 22, 2008 7:41:18 AM PST > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Sage download procedure > > Reply-To: lou blaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I'm not sure whether you are the proper person to address this to, > > but if not you may know who it is. > > > > If Sage were compressed with 7-zip from sourceforge rather than > > zipped the resulting self extracting executable is 474MB instead of > > 749MB This would save you countless hours of download time and > > would allow the addition of a significant amount of material of > > interest > > source code, examples, archived journals, etc. to be added to a CD > > or ISO image. the extract time is also significantly shorter. > > > > Lou Blaine > > > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
