On Tuesday 11 June 2002 18:43, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We spend so much energy keeping the installer within a floppy's size. I > > move to abandon that silly goal for d-i, and simply refer folks to > > boot-floppies for floppy installations. It's not like it's dead and > > buried, and it's a good match technology wise, 1990's software :-) with > > 1990's hardware. Well, you get my drift. > > Do you have a CD-Writer? Maybe. But I don't in 2002, and neither do > several of my friends. So, you're moving that I'll be unable to install > Debian without ordering a CD? > > > CD's are ubiquitous > > CD writers are not > > > Plus, we already have a working floppy installer! > > Boot floppies is dead. Nobody will maintain it for woody+1, unless > you are going to do it.
Your point is understandable, but I think abondening other languages or not advancing the technology due to size limitations of a floppy is not really worth it. Not exactly related to this topic but somehow related is the acceptance of UTF-8 for the translation of the Debian pages. A while back I translated a lot of Debian pages, which were rejected because I had corrupted all the other languages in the same file. Why? Becuause I had saved the files in UTF-8, and this corrupted the other content. But for me there is almost no other way than using UTF-8 for Farsi. Unicode, Bidi and RTL are unavoidable. It would be great having Debian support this. Arash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
