Re: [proposal] remove the requirement to compress documentation
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 08:22:52AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
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> As such, I believe the requirement to compress files is an anachronism
> that we should get rid of.
>
> Thoughts?
In general, I agree with the rationale in principle. I think it's
possibly important to note that given that the HTML documentation
is already not compressed, we already have a precedent for not
compressing some types of documentation because (I presume) it
excessively hinders their general usability. I think the same
argument can be made for PDF and text files; while it's true some
tools can cope with the compression, the number of times I tab
complete a less </usr/share/doc/xxx> command to find it's an
unreadable mess, and have to repeat that with [xx]less or some
other tool is very frequent--usually several times a day. So
I think there is immediate user benefit to this.
Regards,
Roger
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