From: Kero <kero@...>
Date: 2004-01-11T02:21:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Reducing Ruby's footprint

> It looks like a Ruby installation takes up about 60MB on Windows.  I'm
> wondering if it's possible to get that down to 10MB.  Of course, I
> know I can just eliminate a lot of items in the library like FOX and
> TKlibs (which I don't need), help docs, and ri.  That will save a good
> chunk of space, but it doesn't get me all the way there.

Base is 4 MB for iPAQ or so. I chopped 1.8.0 to pieces, like here:
   http://handhelds.org/feeds/ruby/
all stripped, naturally. Complete 1.8.1 would be twice that (excluding
ri-documentation, which isn't generated automatically, afaik; Fox isn't in
there, either; it also doesn't contain the dependencies of certain
packages, like Tcl and Tk for ruby-tk).

hth,
Kero.

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