On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 22:42:40 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 21:30:44 UTC, Jerry wrote:
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:08:52 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
The requirements are rather vague, you can interpret it in a
number of ways.
The sensible interpretation imho is "as low an install
footprint as possible while still fulfilling the other
requirements". I'm not aware of anything below ~20MB install
footprint that fulfills the other requirements, but I'd be
interested if you know any.
The install requirement is arbitrary, and why 20MB? It just
seems like you are trying to advertise that program for some
reason.
Because of the programs recommended until that post nothing was
below that while meeting the other requirements (there were
others in the same range, vim being one). The (later) DlangIDE
recommendation, however, lowered that to about ~5MB (beating
both my recommendation and vim in the process).
It's one of the most useless requirements in that list though.
The only reason people mention install size is to boast about it.
I think he just didn't want to install something like Visual
Studio which takes 10+ GB.
I wouldn't consider 200MB gigantic in comparison to 20MB
cause there is literally no difference of use for me.
The thread is about OP's requirements.
So replace me with anyone.
You'd have to have a really shitty laptop for it to be an
issue.
Not relevant.
It is relevant, shit, even with a shitty laptop you can
upgrade the hdd and then it becomes a non-issue anyways.
Your argument implicitly assumed a specific reason (albeit a
generally sensible one) as to why low install size was a (must)
requirement (physical storage limitations being only one
possible reason; shared devices with fixed disk quotas or
devices owned by the university with certain policies being
other possibilities). That is why I didn't (and don't) think it
as relevant to the specific point about being as low as
possible I was making.
Fancy way of agreeing with me, not sure what you are even going
on about anymore if you agree.
