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Re: Liberty-eiffel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 1
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Paolo Redaelli |
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Re: Liberty-eiffel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 1 |
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Thu, 6 Jan 2022 15:57:04 +0100 |
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Il 06/01/22 09:17, Hans Zwakenberg ha scritto:
What's interesting is that all those are really compressible, packed
into a tar.xz those 449mb shrink to a mere 2,9Mb. As far as I can say
these static pages could be **temporarily** acceptable.
If these help files can be packed to less than 3 MB, wouldn't it be enough to
only distribute the packed help file together with a front end that pulls the
needed pages from the packed file on demand?
We could but I think that it is not worth the effort.
Let me explain.
Most other languages have documentation packages that are compressed and
expand several times.
Some examples:
- openjdk-18-doc 13,0MB unpacks to 290MB
- python3.9-doc 11,1MB unpacks to 57,6MB
Our build_debian.sh today produces 3,0 MB of documentation packages.
I acknowledge that to most of people born in the previous millennium our
current way of documenting code is a "waste" of some hundred megabytes.
It seems that most people don't care about it anymore.