<div dir="ltr">Note : all tar.gz files in <a href="https://files.kde.org/digikam/" target="_blank">https://files.kde.org/digikam/</a> are binary archive of Windows versions. You don't need to run a setup.exe to install, including admin account. Just decompress the archive in home directory and run digiKam as well. digiKam do not touch the Windows base register...<div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le jeu. 7 nov. 2019 à 13:19, Gilles Caulier <<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Look the 7.0.0 pre release repository :<div><br><div><a href="https://files.kde.org/digikam/" target="_blank">https://files.kde.org/digikam/</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>and yes, all files grow of 250Mb compared to 6.4.0.</div><div><br></div><div>This is due to use a new DNN face engine, and especially the Yolo face detection model, which is a pure binary file including a pre-trained data of faces for the neural network :</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://invent.kde.org/kde/digikam/blob/master/core/data/facesengine/dnnface/yolov3-wider_16000.weights" target="_blank">https://invent.kde.org/kde/digikam/blob/master/core/data/facesengine/dnnface/yolov3-wider_16000.weights</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Without this binary file, the deployment size come back to the 6.4.0 value...</div><div><br></div><div>We are talking between developers to found the right way and a possible alternative. 7.0.0 is not yet in beta stage and plenty of stuff will changes before the first beta and the final release planed in february or march 2020. So please be patient.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le jeu. 7 nov. 2019 à 11:39, Remco Viëtor <<a href="mailto:remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr" target="_blank">remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On jeudi 7 novembre 2019 16:36:12 CET J Albrecht wrote:<br>
> Wow. The Mac OS package is now pushing the limits of 1GB! This makes it one<br>
> of the largest software packages on my Box. If keeps evolving this way,<br>
> there will be a time when I’m sure that I won’t be the only one who can no<br>
> longer use the program.<br>
Erm, no.<br>
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Those 955M packages are tar.xz. (source?), not MacOS (specific) packages.<br>
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The MacOS binary (digiKam-6.4.0-MacOS-x86-64.pkg, close to the top of the <br>
list) is a 'mere' 296M.<br>
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Remco<br>
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