Spellchecking dictionaries in LyX 2.4 installer

[Yu Jin]

Am Fr., 30. Okt. 2020 um 22:21 Uhr schrieb Yu Jin <yu_jin at lyx.org>:

> 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.
>

Here are some numbers of the installed program on the hard drive with the
installer sizes I wrote earlier still actual.
180 MB what is currently in the installer
715 MB all dicts and thesaurus unpacked
410 MB only dicts unpacked

412 MB dicts and thesaurus compressed
265 MB only dicts compressed

Of course if most want to include all dicts (and thesaurus) I will not
resist. But I think that including everything is too much, including a
couple more popular ones is ok. Because the average user on Windows needs
only 1, maybe 2 anyway and download works well.
-- 
    Eugene
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