On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 2010-10-26 08:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit : >> >> They do load separately. What makes you think they don't? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: 26 October 2010 09:44 >> To: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: [tdf-discuss] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc >> >> Hi, >> >> Please could we make LibreOffice load 'Writer', 'Math', >> 'Impress','Calc', 'Base', 'Draw' etc separately. In other words, can >> these separate entities be kept somewhat isolated so that the load is >> not too much and it will load faster when the program is started. >> >> Please let me know if I am not clear. >> >> Best regards, >> Paul >> > > Hi Gordon: > > I think Paul is suggesting that the download be broken up this way and that > each component be able to work on its own. Right now it is one big download. > Not all of us have high speed and many still (as I am reminded quite often > by our international members) are using dial-up. This is also the case for > many US members. > > Marc
As I mentioned in another thread, I think a better solution would be an online installer (possibly the same software as an automatic updater). You just download a small program, tell it what parts of libo you want, it pulls those parts and the necessary dependencies from a server (it could check several mirrors) and installs those pieces. It could even walk them through the process, asking them what exactly they want to be able to do and then grabbing the programs necessary to do that. That way users wouldn't need to worry about which bits they need to download to get it working it, that is all handled automatically by the installer. It also means that users don't need to worry about future changes in how the parts are broken up, this is all hidden from the user. It also means that when a user wants to install, say, writer and calc only, they don't need to download writer+libraries and calc+libraries (downloading the libraries twice), they can just download writer+calc+libraries. This makes a huge difference since the libraries are by far the largest part of the suite (larger than the rest of the suite combined). -Todd -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
