CURL review request
dsimcha
dsimcha at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 18 06:11:59 PDT 2011
On 8/18/2011 8:16 AM, bearophile wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis:
>
>> It increases the size of the zip file unnecessarily for the majority of users, and anyone using anything other than Windows definitely won't need it.<
>
> This is a silly argument. Have you seen the size of the binary distributions of Python, Java, DotNet? The Haskell installer is 93.6 MB. Java jdk-7-ea-bin is about 100 MB. The DMD zip is very far from there. If this is not acceptable for you still, I see solutions like distribuiting zip with library binaries too and a bare-bones zip for you. Is this good enough for you?
>
...That and we could get the zip file size back down by using
OS-specific zips. You know what Linux users really don't need? Windows
DMD and Phobos binaries.
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