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From: Benedikt Eric Heinen <beh@icemark.thenet.ch>
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To: Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net>
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Subject: Re: Saving 2M in the tarball
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> I have to confess ... I don't think saving 2M in the tarball is worth
> any effort at all. And this is from someone at the end of a 33.6
> link. By the time I've suffered through downloading 18M, another 2 is
> not a big deal.

Maybe we should split the tarball in two. One file containing the minimal
stuff to build XEmacs, and the second one containing all those files that
can be rebuild (*.info* and *.elc). Then people might choose whether they
want to rebuild those files locally or whether they want to download them.

In my case, that would mean I'd only download the basic set and rebuild
the *.elc and *.info files. The second 'rebuildable' tarball is about 7M,
which makes this choice somewhat clear, because I only have a 28800 link,
so the second file would take about an hour to download, but probably only
15minutes to rebuild (Linux, 2*PPro200).

How about that?


    Benedikt

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