On 16/06/12 19:14, Dirk Hünniger wrote: > On 06/16/2012 06:49 PM, Platonides wrote: >> Have you heard of dependencies?You have to download a 364M file, which >> extracts to 898MOf those 94M are Linux-specific. The rest includes >> miktex files, objectfiles, dlls, exes, imagemagick, tcl/tk, Olson >> db...The real code seem to lie at trunk/wb2pdf/trunk/src, being just >> 4MB. >> And if we look at the linux version, it isn't better. It does not >> onlyplace everything into a /usr/bin subfolder, it copies everything >> (90M)to /tmp on each run. Completely oblivious of security.Running >> this program on a shared system is a vulnerability on itself. >> Why don't you make a package with just the wb2pdf specific files?Also, >> temporary build files are not needed on a release. > > > I provide one download that is easy to use for any user of both Linux an > Windows. Thus is obviously contains files unnecessary for each of the > two operating systems. If it was just a few extra MB, I could agree. But 94M / 800M IMHO are past the point here you should split per OS.
> I have heard of dependencies and the .deb > contains a lot of them, and they are downloaded when it is installed. I > can produce a higher quality .deb file. > It will still be 90MByte because > I need a full Unicode font. To be precise I need twelve variants of it > and thats the 90MByte. You mean the mega font? That's actually 207M uncompressed :) That should probably go to a different package (and depend on it). I don't see why it couldn't fallback to another available font if it's not available, though. Many wikis are written in just a tiny subset of unicode. It seems you're creating it from wqyzenhei + unifont + freeserif fonts. Why do you need to merge them? > I essentially did the tmp trick in order to get > around the work of researching where to install each file and to > properly fix the path names in the code and to test that. In case of doubt, you should have placed the folder in /usr/lib A number of would be better placed at /usr/share, though. But I'm not sure what are many files. For instance, what's the purpose of geturl and pa programs? And why do you have copies at bin/ and dist/build? Furthermore, why are they different? Build artifacts are also common there. > So for now you > can run the software, you can test every feature you want, and if you or > somebody else decided s/he wants to use it, I will make a .deb file that > fits yours needs. This will probably take two weeks, with most of the > time being spent on chose proper directories. I feel a bit wary of running that :S _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
