Hi Ken,

2010/11/8 Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com>:
> As a followup, on unstable, the size of orocos_toolchain_ros is about
> 700MB. About 200MB of this are "test" executables in rtt/bin, so, if
> you want to get this even smaller, that appears to be the main place
> to look.  There are some other inefficiencies (~100MB), though it
> seems that the msg libraries themselves are pretty expensive. There
> are 134MB worth of "librtt-ros" typekit and transport libraries in
> rtt_ros_integration_std_msgs. As other msgs are added, this may become
> a dominant cost.

IIRC the Release mode binaries are much smaller (tested that when I
had orocos_toolchain_ros checked out of svn instead of installed by
deb). Default setting seems to be Debug, so there's probably room for
improvement space-wise by switching. Or are there strong reasons for
having Debug as default right now?

regards,
Stefan