https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128233
Sierk Bornemann <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- See Also| |https://bugs.documentfounda | |tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89 | |657 --- Comment #82 from Sierk Bornemann <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Patrick Luby from comment #80) > (In reply to Telesto from comment #79) > > @Patrick > > Another lovely bug. 24 duplicates, 40 people in CC. You likely tackled this > > problem before.. > > If you want my opinion, there is one simple solution: ship all languages in > the main download. I started doing that with NeoOffice a decade ago. It is > how applications are normally shipped in the Mac App Store. > > I assume this whole language pack was a quick hack to reduce TDF's bandwidth > usage. I also assume this is one of the reasons that TDF doesn't ship a > Universal installer and macOS Silicon users get the Intel version by default > (all macOS browsers have frozen their user agent strings to macOS 10.5 Intel > so TDF's download website is broken in its current form). > > I understand why these hacks came about. A decade ago, bandwidth was much > more expensive than it is now and macOS didn't have any no digital signing, > notarization, sandboxing, or hardened runtime. But times have changed, TDF > has lots of mirrors and bandwidth is significantly cheaper than then. > > So my only question about this bug is why hasn't TDF just switched macOS to > a single installer? Is it increased bandwidth cost too much? If so, how much > is that increased cost? +1 See also the unfortunately closed (why?) bug 89657 and the comments and discussion there. The whole situation is still unacceptable and actually unreasonable, especially for the average user. We can do better. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
