[dokuwiki] Re: Mini - DokuWiki distribution
- From: Andrei Shpakov <webwesen@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:33:40 -0600
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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