Gary Gregory wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Luc Maisonobe <luc.maison...@free.fr> > wrote: >> Le 27/07/2011 14:54, Stefan Bodewig a écrit : >>> >>> On 2011-07-27, Torsten Curdt wrote: >>> >>>> But to be clear: this is quite some work just to safe some disk space >>>> for people who check out the whole of commons but do not care about >>>> compress. >>> >>> Actually my main concern was/is the size of the source distribution and >>> network bandwidth rather than disk space. >> >> I second that. I know people who even in occidental countries still have >> no access to ADSL and can use only 56k modems, with unreliable connexion. >> For them, 15MB is huge. >> >> We should take care of the digital divide. > > I do not see how. If I want to be a developer on [compress], I need to > be able to run the full test suite. > > The best workaround I can see is to create a separate download for the > test data. This allows developers who need sources for debugging to > still get them without downloading GBs of test data.
With a separate Maven profile you have exactly that. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
