Alec Flett wrote:
> John Anderson wrote:
>> I think it makes sense to have an end-user version that is stripped of
>> all the unnecessary stuff, e.g. unused Python packages, pylint,
>> pychecker, epydoc tests etc. if it reduces our footprint. Do we have
>> any idea how much space can be saved by doing this?
>>
> I have to agree. In particular, I feel like pylint and epydoc are really
> meta-development features - i.e. once you're already a fully-fledged
> chandler developer, then you might want to actually use these tools to
> improve code.

I agree as well, but that doesn't seem to work for us. We have OSAF
people who are non-developers regularly wanting to run for example
functional tests with the Chandler they downloaded.

> I don't care how cheap disk space is these days, we're starting to seem
> like OpenOffice if it takes more than 60M on disk just to run a PIM!

Size hasn't been a high priority so far, and I don't think it will be in
0.7 either. And you have to remember the download package is actually
compressed so it is not that bad.

-- 
  Heikki Toivonen

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