Maybe a full release and a light one with only english language and other langpacks separatly. Kévin ---------------------------------- Gautreau Kévin ---------------------------------- On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Andrei Shpakov <webwesen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > >