[MacRuby-devel] Size of the apps

Daniel Lopes danielvlopes at gmail.com
Thu Apr 15 11:18:40 PDT 2010


I agree... and we also can dmg the app and probably it will be smaller than
the zip version.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Jakub Suder <jakub.suder at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 16:05, robert gleeson <rob at flowof.info> wrote:
> > I agree, 100%, with Dave Baldwin. It would be nice to see the overall
> size
> > of a MacRuby application reduced to somewhere between 5-8MB because of
> the
> > reasons he listed. I don't think MacRuby can be a big player until we can
> > distribute smaller apps.
>
> I'm not saying it wouldn't be better if the app size was less than it
> is now, but IMHO it isn't that bad at at the moment. The app I write
> weighs 32 MB total (30 MB of that is MacRuby...), but after packing it
> into a zip it's only 11 MB. Looking at my "installers" directory,
> that's not a terribly big size - TextMate is about the same size,
> Adium is twice that, Skype is over 4 times more...
>
> Jakub Suder
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