Support different compression formatsAnswered

For our application, the full update package is 9gb. This is with maximum compression in wyBuild or normal zip.

I have found that using 7zip with 7z format it can compress the files to about 5.5 gb. This would be a big help for our customer downloads.

Is there a way to get wyBuild and wyUpdate to use 7z format? Or can you create new version of wyBuild and wyUpdate to support this?

Since wyUpdate is open source, I suppose I could try to retrofit with the 7zip libs. And for wyBuild, since the update packages are really zips, I suppose I could just unzip them, and then 7z the contents. But better if you did it :-)

Answer

Hey Michael,


Yes, the next version of wyUpdate uses LZMA compression (the XZ format, not 7z, for design reasons).

No hard date on the release. It’ll be out when it’s out (after LicenseChest).