[plt-scheme] Distribution package size ...

From: Chongkai Zhu (czhu at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 1 21:43:01 EST 2009

I also noticed that for the same set of files, if I create package under 
Linux, the .plt file would be much smaller compared to the .plt file I 
got under Windows.

Chongkai

kumar_lista at mac.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In an email long ago, I'd complained about a 7MB minimum size for the "distributable" version
> of a gui executable generated via the "Create executable ..." menu command in
> DrScheme. (on Win32)
>
> I just realized that unzipping the resultant zip file and zipping it again using, say,
> a command-line zip yields a file that's under 4MB!
>
> Maybe the zip compression in DrScheme doesn't use a good compression setting?
>
> Cheers,
> -Kumar
>
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