[Adium-devl] Compression.

[Colin Barrett]

On Jan 28, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Jan 28, 2007, at 02:09:10, Colin Barrett wrote:
>> I was wondering if it would be possible to compress our NIBs --  
>> we're using XML now for NIBs, right?
>
> Not in releases. The Release Makefile converts them to binary format.
>
> And no, compressing nibs won't work. NSNib doesn't expect compressed  
> data. (Or at least it's not documented as working with compressed  
> data. It would be very cool if it Did the Right Thing for gzip,  
> bzip, or zip. But I wouldn't expect it to.)

Obviously they wouldn't, I wasn't expecting an easy solution (hacking  
NSNib?).

But if our nibs are binary, then something else in Resources/ must be  
compressing very well, to get us to ~55%.

-Colin