Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure

On 2011-06-10 6:57 PM, Cor Nouws wrote:
> I see 3.4.0 for Windows is 188 MB now. Do you remember how much it was
> in December .. 440 MB.
>   Wow, great work from all the devs, full time (paid) and part time
> volunteers, that helped with this!

Agree 1000% with that... and it is much less of an issue right now than
it was initially for this reason.

At this point, I'd actually be fine if we could just get the Program
Description in Add/Remove Programs to properly reflect/display the
*installed* language(s), as opposed to just blindly displaying *all*
*supported* languages.

> But on the other hand, and I guess that's what the discussion started
> with, having to do a separate download for the help, if you want it
> local, is not so convenient.

Correct, that is a separate issue - I would still - especially now that
the installer is so much smaller - argue that it just doesn't make sense
to provide the help as a secondary installer, and that it should be
recombined into a single installer, but I understand the argument about
making the load easier on the mirrors too...

Maybe it could be scripted? Have a checkbox (I'd argue that it should be
checked by default) for including the local help, when the download is
selected, just have some kind of script 'concatenate' the two installers
into a single downloadable executable prior to downloading? Shouldn't be
too difficult for a competent programmer (I am not even an *incompetent*
programmer, but I know enough about programming to know generally what
would be hard and what would be easy)...

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