[R-SIG-Win] Size of Rtools33

[Kirill Müller]

Thanks, Jeroen, for your fast reply. Do you think you could separate gdb 
+ its dependencies from Rtools?

The current approach of r-portable is rather crude -- it takes the 
InnoSetup installers for R and Rtools and unpacks them. Perhaps there's 
a better way to do this, I'm open for discussion.


-Kirill

On 25.09.2015 12:10, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> Hi Kirill,
>
> This is noted in https://github.com/rwinlib/r-base#readme: It is
> mostly because we are shipping two separate tool chains instead of one
> multilib. Another reason is that recent versions of gdb depend on
> python, which again depends on a lot of other libraries. If you are
> not interested in gdb, you might be able to remove python related
> things.
>
> Btw this might not be the final Rtools, so maybe wait a bit.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Kirill Müller
> <kirill.mueller at ivt.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> I have noticed a considerable increase in size for the installation of
>> Rtools 3.3. Are there any parts of the installation that I can safely remove
>> if I'm only interested in building R packages (but not R itself)? This is
>> for r-portable, a portable version of R for Windows [1]. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Kirill
>>
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/krlmlr/r-portable
>>
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