Hi Todd,
2010/10/26 todd rme <[email protected]>: > 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, >>> [...] > 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). In principle, I like your idea. However, I see one drawback: You have to rely on the internet connection that it is fast and reliable. While this is true for most European and US/Canada, it is not universal. And judging from my very own experience (I am in Sweden!), I don't have a very reliable internet connection. Sigrid -- 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
