Re: Fwd: Re: [Opencd-devel] Source

[Henrik N. O. <h....@bt...>]

On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 20:30, Toby Inkster wrote:
> On Sat, 04 May 2002 12:33:10 +0100
> James Shuttleworth <ja...@di...> wrote:
> 
> JS> Does this mean people are considering *not* putting the source on
> JS> the disk? I think not having it is not a good idea.
> 
> ISO (binaries): 200MB
> ISO (binaries + source): 500MB
> Chances of average Windows user wanting the source: 2000-to-1.

I agree. Once more OSS is ported to win32 then there certainly wont be
space.  Let's just set it up as 2 CDs from the start.  One with
hyper-friendly apps and installer, and one with source and devel tools -
The OpecCD development companion CD (?)  Many Linux distros are doing
this, so were not being unorthodox.

There is another point: 200MB is twice as fast to download and twice as
fast to burn as 400MB.  This is an advantage for those with slow lines,
AND if you making copies for your 50 nearest friends it saves lots of
time.  The app CD will be distributed 50 times more often than the
development/source one, so this is a considerable saving.

There was a suggestion for having different flavors.  My (revised)
oppinion:

We can have these flavors:
Home - includes games
Education - learning tools
Office  
(no back office)
These will have much overlap, and all should have certain core apps.

OR, we can have 4 buttons as the first menu on the installer, giving a
choice of the 3 categories and "Entire CD"


I suggest we go with the second option for the first few CDs to keep it
simple, and because the total is still only ~200-300MB.  Then we can
splitt it up later.

- Henrik   

> 
> I think putting the source on the CDs is a terrible idea.
> 
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