On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 10:30, Charles Wilson wrote: > > > Seems pretty clear to me, that for anyone on a slow link, or anyone > > charged by volume, that the modular install is much more efficient. > > Faulty analogy. Most users would probably only download the monolithic > tarball once, for their initial installation. Then use setup.exe and > update things in a modular fashion after that.
I'm not about to actively maintain two forms of setup that are so different. And until someone offers to do that, I think it is a reasonable assumption to make that the install form you start with you continue with. Also, I supported having a 'install-in-one-hit-everything' in setup earlier in my email, where you did not quote. Now, for grabbing everything at once, there are many ways: wget ~= setup ~= winwget ~= ftp mget ~= tool foo and they are *all* orthogonal to the monolithic download discussion. I'm trying to highlight the weakness's with a monolithic download, not the pros and cons of a full-install strategy. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---
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