On 6 December 2010 17:02, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> Niklas Laxström wrote:
> 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.


How hard can it be?
find languages/messages/ -name "Messages*.php" -and -not -name
"MessagesEn.php" -delete
Or use some fancy graphical ui to do the same.

What comes to the tarball..
8,0M  mediawiki-1.16.0.7z
13M   mediawiki-1.16.0.tar.gz

This is very simple to implement with no big downsides (we can
continue providing both formats).

And here's the same with all message files stripped out:
2,0M  mw-lite.7z
2,8M  mw-lite.tar.gz

It might look cool, and someone can provide those if he wants, but I
think the default release tarball should contain all languages.

 -Niklas


-- 
Niklas Laxström

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