On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Sigrid Carrera <sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Todd, > > > 2010/10/26 todd rme <toddrme2...@gmail.com>: >> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> 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: goldf...@aol.in [mailto:goldf...@aol.in] >>>> Sent: 26 October 2010 09:44 >>>> To: discuss@documentfoundation.org; market...@libreoffice.org >>>> 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
Certainly, it would be a terrible idea to eliminate the existing offline installer. -Todd -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org 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
