On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > Niklas Laxström wrote: >> This suggestion seems to come up from time to time. I feel it is >> unrealistic. First of all we can't remove them from svn, since they >> have to be there. We could remove them from the tarballs, but please, >> last time I checked the tarball was hardly over 12 megs. Even with >> very slow modem it should take an hour at most to download that. Using >> better compression algorithm would likely shrink it as much as >> removing few languages. The minor languages don't even take as much >> space as the major languages, which usually have more complete >> localisation. >> >> Drawing the line is not easy and would likely cause continuous, >> unnecessary contention, put some languages in a privileged position >> and hurt MediaWiki's top notch i18n and l10n support. Each language is >> special, but you don't see that if you just look at the number of >> speakers. Do we really want hurt one of our greatest advantages? >> >> Besides, it feels silly to talk about this, while we simultaneously >> talk about including some of the most common extensions in the name of >> providing feature complete MediaWiki straight from the box--which is a >> goal I agree with. >> >> -Niklas > > A few days ago the issue came up where I was talking with an end user > who was complaining about MediaWiki being too large (in the server, not > in the tarball) compared to other apps like wordpress. > I think there's a use case for providing a mediawiki download where the > end user can check which languages they want and provide a custom download. > And/or document how to strip some languages from mediawiki. >
I agree that we could provide smaller tarbells for downloading a release. I do not agree with moving them in SVN though. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
