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 formby 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 -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist
