2011/5/29 Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@openoffice.org> M Henri Day wrote: > > 2011/5/28 Stefan Weigel <stefan.weigel@...> > > > As far as I know, it´s an issue of data volume on the download servers. > > Which, no doubt, is an question of money. > > Actually it is just a choice: it does lower the barrier for someone to > host a mirror, but the size and upload time are comparable; the ratio > between the space needed to host LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org is not > an order of magnitude but something like 1/5 or 1/6, especially now that > LibreOffice partially dropped support for several dozens of languages > (that were actually untranslated). > > You should also consider that the help pack is kind of optional in > LibreOffice, since LibreOffice relies on online (i.e., on a website) > help as its primary help system. > > Regards, > Andrea. >
If, indeed, Andrea, this is a choice between two more or less equal alternatives (from tdf's point of view), I should like to suggest that the alternative in which help packages, etc, for non-English-language version are bundled together with the main (US-English) download be adopted, so the need for users to download and install two or three different packages is obviated.... Henri -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
