[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Lars Roland wrote:

> Hello,
>
> the latest nsis releases contain a new additional compression mechanism:
> Lzma
>
> Lzma's compression is stronger than bzip2's which is used by nsis by 
> default. There is a big impact on ethereal's nsis installer's size.
> Lzma reduces the size from about 13.5 MB to 9.3 MB .
>
> Attached patch activates Lzma in nsis.
>
> The current nsis-script for ethereal and this patch require at least 
> nsis-rc1. nsis-rc3 is the most recent version on the nsis website, rc4 
> is already available on sourceforge.

That's incredible!

Beside the fact that compressing is now *much* slower even on fast machines,
this really reduces the size to the values Lars reports, I just can't 
believe it :-)

I've checked it in, but put it under the !ifdef MAKENSIS_MODERN_UI as 
this will usually correspond.

We might get rid of the MAKENSIS_MODERN_UI completely, if the NSIS 
people will release their 2.0 version ...

Regards, ULFL