[Adium-devl] Compression.

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jan 29, 2007, at 3:30 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> On Jan 28, 2007, at 4:16 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>
>> On Jan 28, 2007, at 03:26:42, Colin Barrett wrote:
>>> But if our nibs are binary, then something else in Resources/ must
>>> be compressing very well, to get us to ~55%.
>>
>> Only in release builds (including betas). The nibs in the source
>> tree are XML; the makefile uses nibtool to convert them.
>
> Yeah, this was done on the released copy of 1.0b24 in my / 
> Applications.

The Localizable.strings files go from 188 KB to 32 KB, and there 22  
of them, one per language.

50% of the text of a Localizable.strings file is comments; these  
comments are nice to have in the English file so that a new localizer  
can begin translation, but are totally unnecessary in all the  
others.  I think I've seen a tool to remove these /* blah */ comments  
before, but I can't find it now.  Running such a tool would be a good  
addition to our release Makefile.

Oddly, the .mp4 sounds compress to 50%, as well.  Not sure what' s up  
with that.

-Evan
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