On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:33:04PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
> Josip> I'm not too keen on providing static versions at all. I
> Josip> can't remember I last saw someone use a -dev package for
> Josip> that. People usually need a -dev package for the .so file
> Josip> and the .h files.
>
> I don't see that optimizing for size of development packages is a big
> concern. If you don't want the static libraries at all, I can see
> that point of view although I happen to disagree with it.
>
> However disks are cheap enough that it seems reasonable to ask people
> doing development to go buy a big disk.
IME it's not the disk space that's so much of an issue, it's the bandwidth!
Having to get 5 MB (all devel. stuff in -dev) when you can get a few KB
(.so+*.h, docs in -doc, .a wherever) is extremely irritating for those who
have to pay for bandwidth, and for low bandwidth at that.
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