[Paraview-developers] Announcing ParaView 2.0.0

[Amy Squillacote]

At 01:25 PM 3/22/2005, Sebastien BARRE wrote:
>At 3/22/2005 10:44 AM, Amy Squillacote wrote:
>
>>The initial release of ParaView 2.0 is available for download from 
>>ParaView's web site (http://www.paraview.org/HTML/Download.html).  Please 
>>be aware that the files containing the precompiled binaries for Linux are 
>>rather large (over 50 MB).
>
>=> 65 MB actually...
>
>If you discard the symbols from the object files by running 'strip -s' on 
>the executable (I assume it's safe to do), you can shrink that to:
>=> 52 MB
>If you self-compress the executable with the usual 'upx -9' before 
>tar-gzip, you are down to:
>=> 48 MB
>(with the extra-benefit that the executables, ready to run on disk, will 
>take about 50 MB instead of 160 MB

Brad is working on getting ParaView to build and install with shared 
libraries, which will fix the problem further.  The reason the precompiled 
Linux binaries are so large is that static libraries are used, and we have 
several executables that use a lot of the same code.

- Amy