w32 installation paths

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Tue Nov 16 04:39:31 CET 2004


On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:37:45PM +0100, Maxine Brandt wrote:

> Actually, my reasoning for not pursuing the change in the code for
> GPG TO GO on a floppy seems no longer valid. Since my earlier post
> in this thread I've had a look at the Windows version of 1.3.92 and
> it's too big for a floppy. With the best upx compression, the
> gpg.exe binary is almost 100kb larger than that of 1.2.5 and it
> requires the iconv.dll which is more than 600kb - a total of 700kb
> extra. A bare-bones version will just fit on the floppy, but there's
> virtually no room for files to encrypt or decrypt.

I wonder why.  The 1.3.x binary actually has less code than the 1.2.x
one since there is no keyserver stuff and the Elgamal signing code was
removed.

Perhaps the bzip2 library?

David



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