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Re: Splitting the package.



John M Cooper wrote:

Its huge! over 60 Mb for each platform! We have already put 130Mb plus
source into the archive!

I suggest 3 splits

openoffice.org
openoffice.org-doc
openoffice.org-common
openoffice.org-gallery


openoffice.org is the main package that contains the platform dependant
files it depends on OOo-common and recommends OOo-doc and OOo-gallery

OOo-doc is the docs ;-) this is basically the help files split out.

OOo-gallery is the clipart and backgrounds but not the applications
I think those 2 should be done before anything else, because they would probably be heavy and are easy to "extract". I'm willing to help, but have no idea for now about the location of those files.


OOo-common is the rest! All platform independent
Far less easy to split.

Other options could be OOo-printers containing all the printer drivers
and OOo-templates with all the templates, OOo-java containing the java
files.

What does everybody think? I dont think that we want to split it up to
much but getting some of the bulkier items into separate downloads that
are both common across all platforms and dont need to be downloaded
every update could help I think. Then we could do OOo_1.0-5 depends on
OOo-common >= 1.00-3.

If we can agree what is needed then I will look into it further.

The problem I see is that we would still have to download the full source package to do that! Isn't a way to split that also? I think this is an upstream issue. Are we close enough to ask them to make it?


john

Jérôme



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