[haiku-development] Re: [beports] Development build (was Changeset 60)
- From: "scott mc" <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 16:47:08 +0000
> I think it's okay to include most of the optional tools for the
> developer image - after all, they can be very helpful for testing (the
> developer image is not meant for demo use, François, though). It always
> depends on the target audience, though. If this is not intended for
> Haiku developers, but developers that want to develop apps for Haiku,
> things like VLC, Links, and WonderBrush are probably not really
> necessary or wanted.
> I also think that 1.8 GB is way too large for such an image, 400-600 MB
> should really be okay, and sufficient for most of the things you will
> want to do with such an image. And if not, you can always do one
> yourself, anyway. Don't forget that you would probably frequently
> update that image, so putting much data on the same partition (or
> reserving space for this) doesn't really make much sense since it's
> wiped every time.
>
> Bye,
> Axel.
>
Ok, I've set it up to get Firefox, Pe, Vision and the Development
stuff. I will set it up for 500MB. That also keeps it at a
reasonable size for copying to CD as François points out and also
small enough to fit onto a 512MB CF card, for those who might be
trying that out as well (am I the only one?).
-scottmc
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