lynx-dev Re: release

[Webmaster Jim]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 10:18:58AM -0400, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > > I don't think we should: it's an increase of ~750kb in the size of the 
> > > download, and is not usable on Win32, DOS or VMS (I see that 2.8.3's 
> > > already 10% larger than 2.8.2). 
> > I don't see 750K extra in the compressed form: 
> I got the number by zipping all of po into one file.

I got a much smaller value for the po files:
$ zip /tmp/po *.po
  adding: cs.po (deflated 72%)
  adding: de.po (deflated 72%)
  adding: es.po (deflated 45%)
  adding: fr.po (deflated 77%)
  adding: it.po (deflated 69%)
  adding: ko.po (deflated 23%)
  adding: nl.po (deflated 73%)
  adding: no.po (deflated 23%)
  adding: pl.po (deflated 24%)
  adding: pt.po (deflated 44%)
  adding: pt_BR.po (deflated 73%)
  adding: ru.po (deflated 71%)
  adding: sl.po (deflated 73%)
  adding: sv.po (deflated 23%)
$ ls -l /tmp/po.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 jim  wheel  322416 Apr 23 10:34 /tmp/po.zip
$ unzip -v /tmp/po
Archive:  /tmp/po.zip
 Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name
 ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----
 150001  Defl:N   42627  72%  12-11-99  07:00  d40b4f93   cs.po
 162408  Defl:N   45598  72%  09-18-99  18:20  49bbe486   de.po
    842  Defl:N     466  45%  01-06-00  22:02  fe7e55f3   es.po
 286008  Defl:N   65352  77%  06-07-99  17:31  fa11614b   fr.po
   6325  Defl:N    1960  69%  11-19-98  13:59  587551cf   it.po
    261  Defl:N     200  23%  01-06-00  22:02  3e8fa851   ko.po
 163468  Defl:N   44636  73%  01-23-00  15:50  84074db1   nl.po
    261  Defl:N     200  23%  01-06-00  22:02  49156f36   no.po
    261  Defl:N     198  24%  01-06-00  22:02  d797aada   pl.po
    826  Defl:N     463  44%  01-06-00  22:02  67bc605a   pt.po
 153788  Defl:N   41795  73%  07-30-99  10:00  f466f82f   pt_BR.po
 153246  Defl:N   44335  71%  08-08-99  03:50  3db5b0d0   ru.po
 121378  Defl:N   32678  73%  01-05-00  08:30  d45aa3d1   sl.po
    261  Defl:N     200  23%  01-06-00  22:02  077001e8   sv.po
 ------          ------  ---                              -------
1199334          320708  73%                              14 files

Yes, it's 1MB of text. However, I believe the translators work deserves
to be distributed along with the code. The Russian translation is
current, and others will work for the majority of messages.

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