Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package

[Phillip Lord]

Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Phillip Lord) writes:
>
>> I have now trialled there and there are versions on alpha
>>
>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-27/
>>
>> The "emacs-27.0.50" files are built like a release build, while the
>> "-snapshot" ones are built like a snapshot build.
>>
>> In terms of the download size, -no-deps drops from 107M to 46M which is
>> the most extreme drop.
>
> Quite a difference. I'm sure there are plenty of users all around the
> world that will appreciate this change. Thank you.
>
> BTW, seeing emacs.exe with less than 5MB gives a fuzzy feeling. Even
> emacs.exe + emacs.pdmp is less than 12 MB.


Happy to do it. It doesn't look like it was a deliberate decision
anyway.

Phil