Spellchecking dictionaries in LyX 2.4 installer

[Yu Jin]

Am Fr., 30. Okt. 2020 um 21:59 Uhr schrieb Thibaut Cuvelier <
tcuvelier at lyx.org>:

> On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 21:31, Yu Jin <yu_jin at lyx.org> wrote:
>
>> Am Fr., 30. Okt. 2020 um 21:24 Uhr schrieb Stephan Witt <st.witt at gmx.net
>> >:
>>
>>> Am 30.10.2020 um 19:48 schrieb Yu Jin <yu_jin at lyx.org>:
>>> >
>>> > Am Fr., 30. Okt. 2020 um 19:29 Uhr schrieb Pavel Sanda <sanda at lyx.org
>>> >:
>>> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 07:19:06PM +0100, Yu Jin wrote:
>>> > > Actually I remember my first attempts to work with LyX, I asked
>>> google and
>>> > > found it pretty quickly.
>>> > >
>>> > > Btw. by default following dicts are included in the installer on
>>> Windows:
>>> > > de_DE
>>> > > en_GB
>>> > > en_US
>>> > > es_ES
>>> > > es_MX
>>> > > fr_FR
>>> >
>>> > Do you have an estimate what would be the difference in installer size
>>> if we included all dicts?
>>> >
>>> > you mean all from
>>> https://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyxsvn/dictionaries/trunk ?!
>>> > There is 300+ MB thesaurus and 240 MB dictionaries unpacked.
>>> > Including those produces a 105 MB large installer.
>>> > Including "only" the dicts produces a 82 MB large installer.
>>>
>>> For the Mac I package 82 dicts - 4 of them are linked to identical
>>> versions - e.g. en_NZ.dic -> en_GB.dic.
>>>
>>> These make an additional disk size of approximately 246 MB if
>>> uncompressed.
>>> Fortunately the disk image can use a HFS+ feature: the files are
>>> compressed and so it's 50 MB in package and on target systems.
>>>
>>> I don’t know if something similar is possible on windows.
>>>
>> No, unpacked files always take the full size on Windows.
>>
>
> It's maybe possible to enable NTFS compression for these files?
> https://nsis.sourceforge.io/SetNTFSCompressionFlag_Function
> I don't know if the files are large enough for NTFS compression to really
> kick in (it's not supposed to be used if the files are too small and/or
> difficult to compress).
>

Every day you learn something new... Windows life :). I will check tomorrow
and report how well it works.
-- 
    Eugene
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