I think most of you might know about a company called nosso (nosltd.com) that makes distributions for some well-known companies like Adobe.
Somehow it manages to achieve great compression level while still remaining quite fast and not that memory-guzzly.
Some time ago I've been trying to beat it, or at least keep up with it in terms of compression, and I, well, failed. My own SFX distribution, which included nz -cO and precomp, was 1 megabyte larger and it decompressed about 3 minutes.
I would like to ask you to tryI think we can even call it a challenge - to make a self-extracting distribution, that extracts itself in, let's say, less than a minute (though the Nosso one takes about 20 seconds or so), and weighs less than Nosso's.
This is the original file: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adob...r910_en_US.exe - 25,5 MB (26 739 584 bytes)
These are its contents: http://rapidshare.com/files/218799112/adrd91en.7z (direct download) - 32,8 MB (34 453 550 bytes)
I have been testing it some time ago, and the only thing that could beat it was CMBoth in PAQ-like programs and in NanoZip. Also, if I remember correctly, WinRK's ROLZ3 was either better or painfully close to Nosso. But there were one or two issues with its quality
Overall, I hope this should be interestingI don't know if it's "legal" to use the administrative install of the .msi included, but I personally don't see anything wrong with it.