compress executables via upx (see if it helps #394)

.github/workflows/build.yaml

@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ jobs:
         with:
           pandoc-version: '2.17.1.1'
 
+      - name: Install upx
+        run: choco install upx
+
       - name: Install R
         uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
         with:
@@ -139,6 +142,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Build TinyTeX-0.zip & install more package
         run: |
+          sudo apt install -y upx
           sed -i 's|# finished base|cp $OLDPWD/install-tl-unx.tar.gz tools/; Rscript tools/clean-tlpdb.R; tar zcf TinyTeX-0.tar.gz -C ~ .TinyTeX|' tools/install-unx.sh
           ./tools/install-unx.sh
 
@@ -223,6 +227,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Build TinyTeX-0.zip & install more package
         run: |
+          brew install upx
           sed -i '' 's|# finished base|Rscript "${{ github.workspace }}/tools/clean-tlpdb.R"; tar zcf "${{ github.workspace}}/TinyTeX-0.tgz" -C ~/Library TinyTeX|' tools/install-unx.sh
           ./tools/install-unx.sh
 
@@ -257,7 +262,7 @@ jobs:
           command: |
             gh release upload ${{needs.new-release.outputs.draft-tag}} TinyTeX-0.tgz TinyTeX-1.tgz TinyTeX.tgz TinyTeX-2.tgz --clobber
 
-  tinitex: 
+  tinitex:
     needs: [new-release]
     name: Get tinitex release
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -276,7 +281,7 @@ jobs:
           7z a -o.. tinitex.zip x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/.
           7z a -ttar -so tinitex.tar x86_64-apple-darwin/. | 7z a -si -o.. tinitex.tgz
           7z a -ttar -so tinitex.tar x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/. | 7z a -si -o.. tinitex.tar.gz
-      
+
       - run: ls -lisa tinitex
 
       - name: Upload bundles

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: tinytex
 Type: Package
 Title: Helper Functions to Install and Maintain TeX Live, and Compile LaTeX Documents
-Version: 0.43.1
+Version: 0.43.2
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"), email = "xie@yihui.name", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),
   person(family = "RStudio, PBC", role = "cph"),

tools/clean-tlpdb.R

@@ -1,7 +1,21 @@
 if (!requireNamespace('tinytex', quietly = TRUE)) utils::install.packages('tinytex')
 # clean texlive.tlpdb.* files
 tinytex:::delete_tlpdb_files()
-# clean log files
-unlink(list.files(
-  tinytex::tinytex_root(FALSE), '[.]log$', full.names = TRUE, recursive = TRUE
-))
+
+local({
+  files = list.files(tinytex::tinytex_root(FALSE), full.names = TRUE, recursive = TRUE)
+
+  # clean log files
+  unlink(grep('[.]log$', files, value = TRUE))
+
+  # compress executables using upx
+  if (Sys.which('upx') != '') {
+    if (xfun::is_windows()) {
+      files = grep('[.](dll|exe)$', files, value = TRUE)
+    } else {
+      files = files[file_test('-x', files)]
+      files = files[sapply(sprintf('file --mime-encoding %s | grep -q binary', shQuote(files)), system) == 0]
+    }
+    for (f in shQuote(files)) system2('upx', c('-qq', f))
+  }
+})