On 21/10/15 06:32, Ted Gould wrote: > On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 12:05 +0200, Víctor Mayoral Vilches wrote: >> What problems did the size cause? Were you running out of disk >> space or was the download difficult? >> >> Size actually is a problem if we think of extending a robot's behavior >> with snaps. The main reason why we haven't pushed ROS snaps to the >> store is because it doesn't make sense to have a 200 MB simple ROS >> package (or even 50 MB if we manually strip it down). Updating it >> wirelessly sounds even less plausible (which is what really excites >> me). > I think that, long term, we'll have to solve the size problem; but that > is an optimization. The first things we need to get right are the > developer experience from build to test to deployment to support.
I think what Ted is referring to is that updates to large snaps can be delta's which are themselves tiny. Mark
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