[SM-Discuss] Release of 0.10.0-test1 ISO
David Kowis
dkowis at shlrm.org
Wed Jul 16 10:39:26 EDT 2008
Quoting flux <flux at sourcemage.org>:
> David Kowis (dkowis at shlrm.org) wrote [08.07.16 08:17]:
>> Quoting flux <flux at sourcemage.org>:
>> Is the z-rejected grimoire so terribly big that it can't fit on the CD?
>
> It's not that it can't fit on the CD, it's that it would be
> significantly larger for the benefit of just a single spell, which only
> affects a handful of users. At present, I'm not ready to sacrifice that
> much space to gain so little (not users, but spells needed). There's
> also the issue of just not wanting to "taint" the ISO if it's possible
> to avoid it.
>
You know, the compressed grimoire is 587K. So lets assume a really
good compression ratio of 33%. So 1.5mb on the ISO that we're going to
sacrifice for people that can't get online. Seems a bit silly to me.
Especially since you'll include ancient CD drivers for hardware that
proabably doesn't exist for *any* users, but the iwlwifi is in quite a
few intel-based laptops.
I think the issue of "taint" is somewhat foolish. Is it more important
to have a "free" ISO, or to enable as many people as possible to
install?
Obviously some measure of both would be ideal, but which matters more?
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David Kowis
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