next version

[Tapio Huuhka]

Anything that will keep the size of the download reasonable will be
beneficial :-). Somehow the idea of a reference system sounds good.
At least to someone like me, who wants to make a minimum effort to get
any software running, but still would like to get to know the system
and perhaps make some changes later. Would that also facilitate
optional configurations and system upgrades? 

Tapio
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> From: Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@ese-metz.fr>
> To: Jody Klymak <jklymak@apl.washington.edu>
> Cc: fptex@tug.org
> Subject: Re: next version
> Date: 4. helmikuuta 1999 18.37
> 
> 
> Ok, will make the info/man pages available and remove the developper
> stuff.
> 
> Another point that bothers me a bit is the size of the
> distribution. First tests using InstallShield resulted in a 40Mb
file.
> 
> The goal of using IS was to allow people to install only things they
> want. But if they first need to download a 40Mb file from the net
> ... in one piece moreover...
> 
> I wonder how to handle that point ? I mean, most people don't want
> Omega right now (or many other packages or ...), but the tarball has
> everything in it . There is no simple way to split it.
> 
> So I wondered (maybe a silly idea) ... why not having a 'reference'
> installation and build a small utility upon wget that will mirror the
> reference installation ? That might minimize downloads.
> 
> Another option would be to have IS install only binaries and to rely
on
> texconfig (don't worry ,I'm still working on it !) for adding
> packages. But people would always need to download at least the
> teTeX-texmf.tgz file which is 22Mb right now.
> 
> Obviously, the TeX-Live CD distribution will benefit from IS much
more
> than the regular net available one.
> 
> -- 
> Fabrice