On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Frank Thommen <fthommen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > Quoting Andreas Gohr <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Which leads to the question: Why aren't languages, at least "exotic" >>> ones treated as extensions or moved to diffenent releases (core, >>> multilang), as 2/3 of the download size is dispensable. >>> >> >> May I ask you a question? What size is your harddrive? 100 gigabytes? >> 200 gigabytes? 500 gigabytes? What size do you think your hardrive >> will have next year? >> >> What is all this talk about size? 5 or 15 megabytes, why does it matter? >> >> Isn't the convenience for someone speaking Nepali to have to DokuWiki >> running in his own language right from the start worth more than >> saving 10 megabytes of space? >> >> I seriously don't get it. >> >> Andi >> > > I think if somebody asks for it, then he or she has probably good reasons > to do > so. Maybe he/she wants to be able to send the complete wiki in compacted > form > by email etc.? Such a wish should not be dismissed right away. There > seem to > be good/usable solutions to reduce the size of the DokuWiki core. So why > being > so negative about it? > > And: Size *does* matter (in some respect). Maybe not in matters of money > (at > least not for us happy people in rich countries) but more size usually > means > more files -> more complexity -> worse manageability. > > Finally - as a more concrete proposal: Why not add the possibility to strip > unwanted languages with the installation process or within the DokuWiki > configuration pages? > > Cheers > > frank > > I agree with Frank - some people pay for bandwidth and even more - those who use those exotic languages are affected the most by n*MB downloads. let them download core + just their lang pack.