Amarok installer size

[Bart Cerneels]

Is this really so important w.r.t. all the other things on the TODO? I
would not spend any time on a marginal (1.1/88) reduction of installer
size if it take mare then half an hour. We've got plenty of
bugs/features/UI improvements to focus on.

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 15:51, Sven Krohlas <sven at asbest-online.de> wrote:
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> Heya,
>
> we should really try to reduce our Windows installer size.
> It is currently at 88MB. I guess I was able to cut about
> 1.1MB with the latest changes and some files to blacklist,
> but there is still a lot to do.
>
> While we are at it this could lead to smaller *nix packages,
> too. The 2.4.3 packages for opensuse have a size of 8.2 MB
> (21.8 installed) and also profit from the 1MB (!) first start
> jingle size reduction accordingly.
>
> So, what can we still do?
> Generally:
> * Check for unused images/icons again
> * some icons look very similar -> merge them?
>
> For Windows:
> * blacklist unneeded stuff
> **
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/emerge/repository/revisions/kde-4.7/entry/portage/package/amarok-package/blacklist.txt
>
> According to TheOneRing more stuff could be found by extracting
> the portable Windows installer and check what is not needed there.
> It also includes KDE icons, many of those might not be needed for
> Amarok...
>
> http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Download:Windows#Portable_Amarok_package
>
> For comparison:
> * iTunes 10.5.2 (x64): 68.01 MB
> * WMP: wmp11-windowsxp-x86-DE-DE.exe: 24.6MB
>
> * Clementine 0.7.3: 3.6 MB OpenSuse 12.1 package, 12.4 MB installed
> * Tomahawk 0.3.3:   2.7 MB OpenSuse 12.1 package,  9.2 MB installed
> * Amarok 2.4.3:     8.2 MB OpenSuse 12.1 package, 21.8 MB installed
> * Amarok 1.4.10:    2.7 MB OpenSuse 12.1 package,  7.9 MB installed
>
> We should be able to beat iTunes, shouldn't we? :-)
>
> Any more ideas what we can do to reduce size?
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