Spellchecking dictionaries in LyX 2.4 installer

[Thibaut Cuvelier]

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).
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