I notice there was a substantial size jump between p6 and p7:
Jul 31 09:47 GNU Compr. Tar ruby-1.8.0-preview6.tar.gz 1758Kb
Aug 1 12:10 GNU Compr. Tar ruby-1.8.0-preview7.tar.gz 2109Kb
As far as I can see, this was caused by importing a bunch of tk samples. And
the biggest part of that is a single ~200KB image which has been included
twice:
$ cd ruby-1.8.0/ext/tk/sample
$ du
12 ./demos-en/doc.org
295 ./demos-en/images
648 ./demos-en
12 ./demos-jp/doc.org
295 ./demos-jp/images
625 ./demos-jp
1303 .
$ ls -l demos-en/images/.ppm
-rw-r–r-- 1 brian brian 196623 Jul 31 21:52 demos-en/images/teapot.ppm
$ ls -l demos-jp/images/.ppm
-rw-r–r-- 1 brian brian 196623 Jul 31 21:52 demos-jp/images/teapot.ppm
There’s also a 50K GIF which has been included twice.
Is this really necessary? If it is, could you not just include symlinks
from demos-jp/images to demos-en/images, or vice versa?
In fact you could just symlink the whole directory, but the filenames are
different:
$ diff -ubr demos-en/images demos-jp/images
Only in demos-jp/images: face.bmp
Only in demos-en/images: face.xbm
Only in demos-jp/images: flagdown.bmp
Only in demos-en/images: flagdown.xbm
Only in demos-jp/images: flagup.bmp
Only in demos-en/images: flagup.xbm
Only in demos-jp/images: gray25.bmp
Only in demos-en/images: gray25.xbm
Only in demos-jp/images: letters.bmp
Only in demos-en/images: letters.xbm
Only in demos-jp/images: noletter.bmp
Only in demos-en/images: noletter.xbm
Only in demos-jp/images: pattern.bmp
Only in demos-en/images: pattern.xbm
Rather than a cultural difference in preferred image format, this appears to
be a bug, since the contents of the files are identical.
Cheers,
Brian.