On Thu, Apr 18, 2002, Cliff L. Biffle wrote: > I'd go the other direction. 'Plucker', the viewer, is compatible with 2.x+. > 'Plucker Advanced' or 'Plucker International' or something along those lines > adds all the new bloat^H^H^H^H^Hfeatures. :-)
I can send you a copy of the 0.01 version, it's less than 7k. You wouldn't be able to do much with it, but it definitely doesn't contain any bloat (or features for that matter:) And speaking about the size of the viewer, I sent the following message to plucker-dev almost two years ago, ----- Forwarded message from Michael Nordstr�m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 19:40:27 +0200 (MEST) From: Michael Nordstr�m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The history of Plucker (was: Viewer with zlib support) To: Plucker Development List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > When Mike and I got involved in this project with Mark Lillywhite, > the viewer was 7k (mid 98? I forget now). Granted, it was using > awk, no compression, no images, nothing, but it was still a very > good tool at the time. Well, myself I subscribed to plucker-list right after the release of 0.01 (Oct '98), but I had so many other things to do at that time, so it was first in May '99 that I joined this project (I had sent a few patches to Mark before that). Anyway, looking in my Plucker archive (I have every release from 0.01): 6860 Oct 15 1998 0.01 (very limited in features) 7004 Dec 3 1998 0.02 (more or less the same as 0.01) 8627 Jul 9 1999 0.03 (now we have support for images) 13999 Oct 2 1999 0.04 (never released, scrollbars and prefs added) 21792 Dec 25 1999 0.5 (lots of features, python parser, compression) 30550 Apr 24 16:08 0.6 (toolbar icons, greyscale support) 42677 May 27 22:49 0.7 (better screen depth support, mailto tags) 43069 Jun 21 22:41 0.8 (beamed databases) 51423 Jul 13 02:40 0.9 (databases in flash, large images) 54324 Jul 14 19:17 0.z.1 (ZLib support) Compiling without error macros will decrease the size on the last few versions with another 3-4k. I created a database for Linux Gazette for all the versions and got the following results: 0.01: 493k 0.02: 493k 0.03: 618k (images, but no compression) 0.04: 619k 0.5: 165k (DOC compression) 0.6: 172k 0.7: 165k 0.8: 185k 0.9: 187k 0.z.1: 141k (ZLib compression) I had to set up a special test version of LG, since the parsers for 0.03 and 0.04 tried to download all web pages on my server although I was only using a max depth of 2 ;-) /Mike ----- End forwarded message ----- Anyway, a long time ago I suggested to create a modularized viewer, that would consist of a small generic viewer that you could expand with different modules. However, the current design makes it kind of difficult to implement such a solution. Maybe one day... /Mike
