Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Package archive formats and compression

[Aaron W. L. <aar...@aa...>]

NightStrike wrote:

> Forgive me if I am being daft, but why do large files matter?  It's
> 2008, after all.

There's always a 'too big.'  At what point does that happen?

When its half a gigabyte to just download a complete GCC, this starts to 
seem like a lot.  A possible goal of an open source compiler is general 
accessibility, something which isn't met if the distribution is too 
large for some users.

50 or even 100 megabytes is something reasonably downloadable on dialup. 
  I don't think 500 really is.