Love, UPX, and you!

[Robin]

Would UPX work on the OS X versions of the DLL's? i.e. the Frameworks that are mostly ASCII text code? If someone created a single-click OS X launcher that would decompress all of it, run it from a temp folder then clean up, I'd bite!

Well, it works with binary formats. But why are those Frameworks mostly ASCII?

(Also, in the future, no-one will have to download LÖVE, because it will come with the operating system. )

[Jasoco]

Open-source I assume. I dunno. Some of it's binaries, but a lot is text. Also, it compresses really well if ZIPped.

[TechnoCat]

Well, it works with binary formats. But why are those Frameworks mostly ASCII?

I believe it is sourcecode.

[bmelts]

The frameworks come with the library's header files (the files you'd find installed in /usr/include or wherever).

[Robin]

The frameworks come with the library's header files (the files you'd find installed in /usr/include or wherever).

Are the header files so large then?

[bmelts]

Are the header files so large then?

Well, collectively the headers are about 2MB, though around half of that is FreeType's fault (and another quarter is SDL's).

[Robin]

[Luiji]

UPX is cool, but I don't recommend using the LZMA option because LZMA requires a lot of overhead during the decompression stage. The default options are sufficient.