On 2/26/2014 4:36 PM, Bobby Holley wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Wesley Hardman <whardma...@gmail.com>wrote:
It seems like it would be trivial to add a button in the Preferences UI to
let people precache all dynamically-loaded data.
I don't think that would be trivial. In particular, which spellchecking
dictionaries would we download? All hundreds of them? Typically people
are only ever going to use one or a few. The different kinds of data
here may need different defaults.
I think this whole thing is valuable, but it's going to require some
significant thought about how we manage this data and probably a whole
new release mechanism for updating the data if necessary. If we did
decide to automatically stream-download some or all of the data for
desktop builds after the initial install, that might nullify the cost
savings associated with reducing the initial download size.
--BDS
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