On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:20:06 +0100, Fil <fil@rezo.net> wrote:
Very cool. I've also heard requests to reduce the tarball size by separating the languages out into separate downloads. Does anybody think that's worth doing?
This has also been checked in. I'm going to try hack the release script to separate the languages from the main tarball.
I personnally dissent from this idea; one great strength of free software is its internationalization open to everyone both in participating to translations and using them. Making them "optional" is making the software weaker.
If the need for smaller tarballs is real (which I doubt, given the bandwidth and diskspace you need to run Mailman :-) ), one option could be, on the contrary, to have a seperate download link for people who *want* a mono-lingual (supposedly US-English?) Mailman.
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