Hi Dave, > Hi Peter, > >> I'm not sufficiently familiar with how packages are put together to >> give you a solid estimate, but... >> Dasher installs into /usr/bin/, /usr/share/gnome/help, >> /usr/share/omf, and /usr/share. The language support is in >> /usr/share/dasher (all of the "alphabet* and "training*" files). >> Collecting all of this together, we have an installed size of ~22MB >> for Dasher. If we strip out the non-English "alphabet*" and >> "training*" files, and a couple other things that are obviously not >> needed for English use, we drop to an installed size of 3.2MB. >> File-by-file gzipped, this minimal collection of files is 975k. 931k >> if you gzip the tar file. If you can point me to the list of 14 >> primary languages, I can refine the estimate. But it looks like we >> should be able to trim most of the 8MB of a Dasher for the primary >> languages LiveCD. Also - what compression technologies do we use for >> these two LiveCDs? >> > > It's actually 12 languages, somehow I had the number wrong. The list is: > > > 1. Chinese - Simplified > 2. Chinese - Traditional > 3. English > 4. French > 5. German > 6. Italian > 7. Japanese > 8. Korean > 9. Portuguese - Brazil > 10. Russian > 11. Spanish > 12. Swedish > > We're using gzip (default level 6) for the primary CD. The global one > uses lzma. (7z command does this on OpenSolaris).
OK. Dasher support for some of those languages is significant in size. Using file-level gzip, we're looking at 4.8MB. Tar-gzip 4.7MB. Support for many of those languages includes training files that, even when compressed, are several hundred KB each; Spanish is particularly weighty at 457KB gzipped. So I return to my original request - let us please at least include blind access in the 12-language LiveCD. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect & Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
