On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 10:04 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > As I said in the bug report, I don't think building docs client side > is the right way to go at all. In the general case this would require > end users to install extra tools to build the docs, and defeats the > purpose of a package managed system such as Fedora.
While in the general case, I would agree with you, in this specific case, I think it's worth building on the client. 687MB is a very large download, over 90 minutes on a 1mbit/s link, and 45 minutes on a 2mbit/s link. Because of the large size and number of files, it also takes a non-trivial amount of time to actually install the rpm; on my laptop six minutes. In comparison, generating the html documents after installing root-* (excluding root-doc) took 37 minutes on my laptop. The total install time is the same for someone with someone with a 3mbit/s link, and client-side building is faster for someone with a slower link. At what point would you say it's worth the tradeoff? Jonathan
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