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From: Philip Powell <philip@blencathra.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Acornet size
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"Carol Carpenter" <carol@barnet.ac.uk> wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> 4. There is an issue of size. The 0.19 archive as it stands is
> nearly 3 Megs in size which is quite large. With new versions of
> things its set to get much bigger. We need to consider ways to
> reduce this as much as possible.
>
> One suggestion is to remove all the documentation and have that as a
> seperate file. I don't think we want to include apps that aren;t
> absolutely necessary. But perhaps we could collect together other
> apps into a seperate archive. Such things could include !talker,
> !uuencode, !newsfind, and ircclient perhaps and anything else you can
> suggest.
>
An important consideration would be to ensure that anybody downloading
Acornet for the first time was well aware of what they actually needed.
If the archive were to be split, which I am not against in principle,
it should be made very clear what was needed for the first time user -
shell, documentation etc. There is nothing worse than downloading
something only to find you have to find other bits and pieces to make
it work.
Philip
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Philip Powell