Hi Monty,

> Ok so lets say we install 50 "core" searches with the 
> package.   If the user
> wants all the searches, would they need to download all the other 200+
> searches from the web?  one at a time?

I think most users don't need all 267 searches. Glenn says he only uses
10, and I think I use a maximum of 7 or 8, most of which I wrote myself.
If somebody needs all the searches, maybe we should keep a separate
allsearches.nsi installer based on John's optional installer where you
can pick out the ones you want installed if not all.

I just like the thought of on-demand installation.
What's cool about this is that we can provide new searches instantly off
the web, without having to distribute a new installer. Just put the xml
on a web server, and it's available.

Of course, the latest searches are already available from the CVS tree,
but it's not very user-friendly (not that httpinst is either,
probably...).

> I know I probably sound like a broken record but isn't it 
> much much more logical just to install all the searches and find a way
to 
> enable/disable them? Does this not ease a lot of the problems?

Maybe it is... My line of thinking is that if users need to disable 250
searches to get what they want, maybe we shouldn't ship all of them in
one package. But then again, the enable/disable functionality is badly
needed anyway :)

I think I've lost track of what we're discussing exactly, but I do think
that we should trim the number of searches distributed with the default
installation, and make the rest available as a separate download, as
well as on-demand off the web.

Cheers,
Kim



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