Re: [pygame] Game demo for review

[Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/12/06, Matt <revcompgeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is it possible to zip the installer?
> WinAce is great for this kind of thing!
> --

In my experience Inno Setup compression is very very good (bzip or
something like that?) and zipping stuff after that is marginal at best
and sometimes worse. In fact sometimes doing just one lossless
compression at the very end (i.e. inno setup) can get slightly better
results than compressing stuff multiple times down the chain (i.e.
png's inside of zips inside of archives inside of an installer can
often be very slightly bigger than uncompressed tga's in your
installer - probably because the installer's compression has the
benefit of finding and exploiting similarites between files that the
other compressions have obscured)

The problem is that there's a limit to how much lossless compression
you can do, really the only practical way to get an install package
even smaller is by using great lossy compression on your original
assets, like jpg and ogg.