Spellchecking dictionaries in LyX 2.4 installer

[Yu Jin]

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.

$ ls -l /Volumes/LyX-2.4.0dev/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/dicts/ | awk '{
> sum += $5 ; }END{ print sum; }‘
> 246535517
> $ $ du -sh /Volumes/LyX-2.4.0dev/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/dicts/
> 50M /Volumes/LyX-2.4.0dev/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/dicts
>
> The dict files are from the lyxsvn repository.
>
-- 
    Eugene
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