electron-builder maximum compression

[palerdot]

Related to #8028

dist/Joplin-2.11.1.dmg

Size is reduced roughly by 20MB
Before - 168MB
After - 149MB

CI builds are taking slightly longer (roughly ~2-4 minutes longer)

Windows:

Before - 22 minutes
After - 26 minutes

Linux:

Before - 14 minutes
After - 16 minutes

Mac:

Before - 28 minutes
After - 33 minutes

[laurent22]

How does that compare to High compression?

How long to compress with max vs high?

[palerdot]

How does that compare to High compression?

There is no high compression. Possible values are “store” | “normal” | “maximum” | “undefined” - https://www.electron.build/configuration/configuration.html. I have indicated the size difference between default (normal) and maximum compression in the PR description, which is
Before - 168MB
After - 149MB

How long to compress with max vs high?

In my local, it didn't make much of a difference (didn't time it). I think timing has to be compared in CI, which is currently failing for unknown reasons. I will retrigger the build.

[palerdot]

CI builds are taking slightly longer (roughly ~2-4 minutes longer)

Windows:

Before - 22 minutes
After - 26 minutes

Linux:

Before - 14 minutes
After - 16 minutes

Mac:

Before - 28 minutes
After - 33 minutes

[laurent22]

Ok, good to go then, thanks

[roman-r-m]

Will this not make the startup time of the portable version even worse? There were some complaints about this on the forum as I recall.

[laurent22]

Hmm, yes that's a good point. It would be nice if we could specify no compression for the portable app