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[Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree, if my proposal won't be accepted as is then whatever changes I
will make should be properly tested and won't be rushed for 5.1.3. But if
no changes will be required then all the hard work is done already. Just
need to merge the PR, run the build and upload both executables.

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 1:37 AM Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> For what it's worth, I don't have extra download costs and have decent
> speed, but it's still very frustrating to download 1G instead of ~150M from
> day to day. This would be very nice for nightly builds, and as far as can
> remember, people have complained especially about size of nighly builds.
>
> However, updating the stable is a rare event and I don't care much if it
> takes 30sec or 5min, or whether it takes 150M or 1G in hard drive. I'm not
> sure it's worth rushing for 5.1.3 (if it needs so much work or time).
>
> Eeli Kaikkonen
>
> ke 24. heinäk. 2019 klo 8.04 Ben Hest (bombledmonk@xxxxxxxxx) kirjoitti:
>
>> +1 from a user.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 7:25 PM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Friendly ping :)
>>> This is about a 2 year old
>>> <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-winbuilder/issues/53> bug that users
>>> still complain
>>> <https://forum.kicad.info/t/windows-nightly-too-big/7120/18?u=qu1ck>
>>> regularly
>>> <https://forum.kicad.info/t/btw-using-v5-now-for-3-days-after-some-hiatus-and/14395/14?u=qu1ck>
>>> about <https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-installation/16680?u=qu1ck>.
>>> I know this is mostly for nightlies but would be useful for stable
>>> release too and since 5.1.3 is tagged already now is a good time to decide
>>> what to do.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 4:47 PM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I recently sent a PR to kicad-winbuilder repo that implements a
>>>> proposal for new installers:
>>>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-winbuilder/pull/86
>>>>
>>>> I'm sharing this here for more visibility since it looks like there may
>>>> be division of opinions (Seth is on board with my idea while Nick has
>>>> reservations). My last comment
>>>> <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-winbuilder/pull/86#issuecomment-513405121> best
>>>> explains what I'm trying to achieve.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
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