Decided to plot the Rainmeter installer size from 1.0 to the latest beta. Not that size matters (except in some things ) these days, but I just wanted a visual view.
In case you're wondering about the different curves:
- Prior to r707, we had separate installers for both 32bit and 64bit versions of Rainmeter (green and red curves)
- After r707, the 32bit and 64bit installers were merged into a single installer (blue curve)
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Rainmeter installer size over time
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Re: Rainmeter installer size over time
can you tell me why current installer's size so small)?
What makes installer's size to be that big as was? or ...compressing?
What makes installer's size to be that big as was? or ...compressing?
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Re: Rainmeter installer size over time
Hah! Already forgot about those..Matt wrote:My Christmas "shopping" just got so much easier!
The most significant change was removing the Visual C++ redistributable files from the installer and downloading them on-demand instead. Other savings have been from:~Faradey~ wrote:can you tell me why current installer's size so small)?
What makes installer's size to be that big as was? or ...compressing?
- Merging tools (e.g. RainBrowser & RainThemes -> Rainmeter.dll, RainBackup & Rainstaller -> SkinInstaller.exe)
- Replacing Gnometer & Enigma with illustro
- Getting rid of included fonts (Segoe UI) completely
- Bunch of other minor things