Re: [GD-Linux] ANN: Candy Cruncher for Linux shipped

[Mark C. <me...@th...>]

On Tuesday 26 February 2002 9:22 pm, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
> Astonishing.
>
> "a slightly more compact install system" is to stick it in a tarball, in
> which case the complaint will be, "nice download size, but what do I do
> with this tar.bz2 file?"
>
> If I take the graphical installer out, I'll get bitching that there's only
> a text-based installer. If I take the text-based installer out, I'll get
> bitching that the graphical one doesn't work with the version of GTK+ on
> their system.
>
> Why don't people complain that there isn't a unified way to do ANYTHING in
> Linux instead? That would solve the problem much better...we could remove
> half of SDL's code, and 75% of the installer system.

If it was a 10MB downoad, and only 1MB of the total download was used by the 
installer, then it wouldn't be a problem, but that's not the case. A third of 
the total downoad isn't required to run the game, that's the problem. 

Better options for distrobution of such a small package would be RPMs (and 
debs).

Some people are still on a system that limits the total amount of data they 
can download (many Universities, for example, have IP quotas)...

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