[dokuwiki] Re: Mini - DokuWiki distribution

  • From: Kévin Gautreau <kevin.gautreau@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:30:25 +0100

Maybe a full release and a light one with only english language and other
langpacks separatly.

Kévin
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Gautreau Kévin
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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.
>
>

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