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Re: 17 megabytes compressed download?!
- To: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Subject: Re: 17 megabytes compressed download?!
- From: Eric Lemings <eric dot b dot lemings at lmco dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:49:43 -0600
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Lockheed Martin
- References: <3B2FCA5C.30CD9017@lmco.com> <20010620120308.F1599@disaster.jaj.com>
Phil Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:55:40PM -0600, Eric Lemings wrote:
> > Maybe it's time the GCC maintainers should seriously consider ways to
> > reduce the size of the gcc-3.x.tar.gz downloads.
>
> Did you notice that there are separate tarballs for different languages?
> If you only need a couple lanaguages, then don't download the whole thing.
>
> Also, I believe that .bz2 files are still being generated. Those are
> usually significantly smaller.
>
> Phil
If we can download support for different languages separately, why can't we
download support for different architectures and platforms separately? GCC
supports many many systems but honestly how many users need to download more
than one or two of them? And why not separate the GCC documentation into a
separate tarball?
(Thought I'd just toss this out for discussion.)
Eric.