Hi Will, It sounds good - an optional lean package would frighten off far less prospective users who have heard tales about HDD's dying from the strain of downloading the ZF ;). I would still like to see a PEAR channel emerge at some point though - that may be a fanciful concept but I gather from the last paragraph something along those lines is under consideration? Hope someone comes up with colourful names for these variants!
Best regards, Paddy Pádraic Brady http://blog.astrumfutura.com http://www.patternsforphp.com OpenID Europe Foundation ----- Original Message ---- From: Wil Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:36:39 PM Subject: [fw-general] ZF Packaging As part of the 1.5 release process, we've been reviewing the size of our distribution package and what contributes the most weight. We've determined that there are a few 'heavyweights' that we currently have in the zips/tarballs that many- if not most- users will never need. These include the unit tests, the demos, and the locale files (currently consuming ~8MB uncompressed on my hdd :O). With these components, the 1.0.3 release is ~5.3MB compressed on my hdd. We would like to distribute, starting with the 1.5 RC1, a 'lean and mean' ZF package alongside the 'everything' package. The 'lean and mean' package would not contain the tests, demos, locale files, or extras. 'Everything' would include, well, everything- even docs in html format. To facilitate access to the omissions from the 'lean and mean' release, we would provide a download action for the CLI tool so they can be retrieved and installed in the correct place with a single command. Thomas can give more details about how the locale-aware components would behave in this proposal. Thoughts? Thanks. ,Wil
