Proposal for solving CD Size problems

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 20:16 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote:

> Franklin Gordon Bynum wrote:
> > I think we can and should remain on CD.  We will be aided in doing so as
> > not only are more and more recent GNOME apps in compact Mono/C#, but
> > also certain older apps are replaced with much smaller Mono apps (F-Spot
> > vs. gThumb).  And we've already had the "inclide mono in -desktop"
> > argument ;)
> > 
> 
> Then you've gotta include Mono, as it needs a byte-code interpreter.
> C/C++ are already machine-code. And as you said, there are "more and
> more ... apps". However, I'm also against the use of a DVD as standard.
> It's too much to download even on a one and a half megabit link.
> 
The download would initially be the same size as the CD, and only grow
as things were added to it.  The idea wouldn't be to immediately make
the download 4.0GB, but give us room to make it 850MB if we wanted.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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