[vtk-developers] CVS (vtkbaseline) is huge. TIFF compression ?

[Sebastien BARRE]

Hi

I tried today to write the very latest VTK CVS snapshot to a CDROM, but :

	- VTK source : 20.7 Mo
	- vtkbaseline : 420 Mo
	- vtkdata : 228 Mo

=> 668.7 Mo. More than one CDROM could handle

And if you want to include the very latest documentation (with the new 
collaboration graphs I've added today) : 
ftp://sic.sp2mi.univ-poitiers.fr/pub/barre/vtk/doc/html/index.html

	- DOC doxygen : 44.9

=> 713.6 Mo

I guess the next distribution will use two CDROM :))

Or maybe has someone already considering adding compression to TIFF ?

Basically, Packbits compression would strip down vtkbaseline from 420 Mo to 
232 Mo. The whole CDROM would be 523.6 Mo, leaving spaces for the rest of 
the distribution (examples, documentation, images from the book, etc).