Hi Christian,
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 16:46 +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung16p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@novell.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Would it not be better in 3.4 (when we have solved the size issues)
> >> to
> >> have a single download (like Windows) that includes all the languages,
..
> No, not at all, OOo did *not* include all languages into a single installer.
So - thus far we have:
Norbert, Thorsten and
Nguyen Vu Hung & Martin Srebotnjak
pro this, and you against it. So - looking at your rational:
> The counter-question to that user at fosdem would have been "Would you
> be OK with downloading more than twice of the current size in order to
> only having to install one package?"
So - I guess he would have said "yes", but he is perhaps an outlier;
then again - why do you think it would be more than twice the current
size ? [ clearly we would split the help packs as on windows ].
The Mac OSX no-lang installer is currently 180Mb
The Windows all-lang installer is currently 215Mb
That looks like 20% larger to me - for all languages; and given the
existing 15Mb lang+help packs on Mac, the difference between
distributing l10n+help together, and bundling all l10n, while splitting
help (assuming most people don't download extra help-packs) is: 10%
[ not a like for like comparison but not a huge growth ;-].
The good news is, that in 3.3.1 we will save another handful of
megabytes from the multi-lang install set[1] - so it is sub 20%, and by
3.4 I hope to be very similar in size to the equivalent OO.o with no
languages bundled.
So - I agree; if it were double the size it would be bad :-) but are
you completely opposed to a 20% growth, for much greater convenience for
the common case ?
> And to changing the installer type:
No idea about that - it sounds bad from your description :-)
> But those technical issues aside, I'm against bundling all languages,
> for the size reasons. I don't like it on windows, and I also do so on
> other platforms...
Heh - so; what I hear here is:
"if you can fix the size, we should do it"
is that fair ? if so, it sounds like an issue to fix in 3.4.
ATB,
Michael.
[1] - unless that is consumed by new languages, lets see.
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