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Re: Distribution size

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 26, 2009, 11:22 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0909261320370.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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Hi,
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Marc Weber wrote:
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> Has anyone thought about reducing distribution size ?
> 
> comparison:
> 
> git-1.6.4.4 i%du -hs .
> 115M    .

Funny. Git for Windows is less than 12MB [*1*]. And it includes a bash and Perl. (Did you count Python on Windows?)

So maybe your analysis is severely borked.

Ciao, Dscho

[*1*]: See http://msysgit.googlecode.com/
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