On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Luc Maisonobe <luc.maison...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 27/07/2011 14:54, Stefan Bodewig a écrit : >> >> On 2011-07-27, Torsten Curdt wrote: >> >>> But to be clear: this is quite some work just to safe some disk space >>> for people who check out the whole of commons but do not care about >>> compress. >> >> Actually my main concern was/is the size of the source distribution and >> network bandwidth rather than disk space. > > I second that. I know people who even in occidental countries still have no > access to ADSL and can use only 56k modems, with unreliable connexion. For > them, 15MB is huge. > > We should take care of the digital divide.
I do not see how. If I want to be a developer on [compress], I need to be able to run the full test suite. The best workaround I can see is to create a separate download for the test data. This allows developers who need sources for debugging to still get them without downloading GBs of test data. Gary > > Luc > >> If I'm the only one who >> thinks a 15MB file in svn trunk is excessive, then I'll be happy to shut >> up - I'm going to need the files anyway. ;-) >> >> Stefan >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- Thank you, Gary http://garygregory.wordpress.com/ http://garygregory.com/ http://people.apache.org/~ggregory/ http://twitter.com/GaryGregory --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
