[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 97991] Reducing the size of the Windows Installer

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97991

Yousuf (Jay) Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Yousuf (Jay) Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> @Jay,

@Stuart,

> The problem would be in maintaining this diverse set of installers. MSI
> based installers are monolithic by design--we're lucky to have Andras Timar
> willing to maintain the Windows packaging for our VS build scripts.

@Andras: Would be good to hear your feedback.

> Frankly, I don't have any issues with current packaging of Windows
> installers and offline help packs.

I personally dont have any issues with the current installer as i have a 10MB
fiber optics connection, i've spoken to people who had difficulties downloading
it because of size (e.g. my brother who lives in Somalia where he has a shared
512kb connection and it took him ~4 hours to download it).

> The size of the installer is the price of
> admission--and, we distribute via ISO for DVD and in portable versions for
> those bandwidth constrained.

From what i could see, the ISO on DVD is available in north america and germany
and most users will miss downloading the portable additions because its isnt on
the standard download page for fresh and still and all links (e.g. the big
'Download Now' button on the homepage or in press releases and news articles )
link directly to < http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ >. It is interesting to
see that the full portable version is only 166mb, which makes me wonder why the
msi file is so much larger.

> Suspect to get any traction on this, TDF would need to hire a FTE release
> engineer to specialize in Windows installer packaging--probably WiX based
> and move away from MS Visual Studio based packaging-- to be able to support
> the more granular packaging you are suggesting.

Not sure if this would help, but there are msi editors like -
http://www.instedit.com/ - so likely there maybe some commandline msi apps that
could automate the process.

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