From: Brian Candler Date: 2003-08-04T18:35:07+09:00 Subject: preview7 tarball size I notice there was a substantial size jump between p6 and p7: Jul 31 09:47 GNU Compr. Tar ruby-1.8.0-preview6.tar.gz 1758Kb Aug 1 12:10 GNU Compr. Tar ruby-1.8.0-preview7.tar.gz 2109Kb As far as I can see, this was caused by importing a bunch of tk samples. And the biggest part of that is a single ~200KB image which has been included twice: $ cd ruby-1.8.0/ext/tk/sample $ du 12 ./demos-en/doc.org 295 ./demos-en/images 648 ./demos-en 12 ./demos-jp/doc.org 295 ./demos-jp/images 625 ./demos-jp 1303 . $ ls -l demos-en/images/*.ppm -rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 196623 Jul 31 21:52 demos-en/images/teapot.ppm $ ls -l demos-jp/images/*.ppm -rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 196623 Jul 31 21:52 demos-jp/images/teapot.ppm There's also a 50K GIF which has been included twice. Is this really necessary? If it is, could you not just include symlinks from demos-jp/images to demos-en/images, or vice versa? In fact you could just symlink the whole directory, but the filenames are different: $ diff -ubr demos-en/images demos-jp/images Only in demos-jp/images: face.bmp Only in demos-en/images: face.xbm Only in demos-jp/images: flagdown.bmp Only in demos-en/images: flagdown.xbm Only in demos-jp/images: flagup.bmp Only in demos-en/images: flagup.xbm Only in demos-jp/images: gray25.bmp Only in demos-en/images: gray25.xbm Only in demos-jp/images: letters.bmp Only in demos-en/images: letters.xbm Only in demos-jp/images: noletter.bmp Only in demos-en/images: noletter.xbm Only in demos-jp/images: pattern.bmp Only in demos-en/images: pattern.xbm Rather than a cultural difference in preferred image format, this appears to be a bug, since the contents of the files are identical. Cheers, Brian.