Re: Why are Xcode "updates" so friggin' big??
Re: Why are Xcode "updates" so friggin' big??
- Subject: Re: Why are Xcode "updates" so friggin' big??
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:16:15 -0500
On Nov 2, 2006, at 11:54 AM, AgentM wrote:
FWIW, this reminds me of one of my pet peeves about Mac OS X
software, which is that almost all bundled software installs all
available language resources. Wouldn't it be smarter and use less
disk space to only distribute the languages a user wants? I
distribute language-specific builds of my product -- English, and
English + one other language -- and I've never had a single user
complain that I don't offer one with all languages. And yet
everyone takes the easy way out, even though many people would
prefer to not have a lot or language resources they never use. If
I deleted all of the non-English .lproj folders on my system
volume I'd get rid of over 150,000 files and folders, and free up
2GB of disk space. But a language-specific approach would involve
a lot more work and complicate installations, so we have the one-
size-fits-all approach instead.
You can do this after-the-fact:
http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/
Oh, I know. My own product will do it.
Bytes are cheap- developer time is not.
Bytes are cheap until you are nearly out of them. ;-) But more than
anything it's a personal issue. Some people don't care and some do.
User satisfaction depends on the user's point of view, not on whether
you or I think this should be a concern.
In any case, the "bytes are cheap" mentality can take a toll if you
aren't regularly upgrading your hard drive or computer to get a
bigger drive. Unused language resources, universal binaries, tens of
thousands of HTML e-mails with signature images stored as individual
files, plus an assortment of video, music and digital picture files
and it really doesn't take some people long to fill up a drive. To
the extent those files offer value to me, that's fine. I'm less
thrilled about space just being wasted to provide me no value at all.
And I know I'm not the only one who feels that way.
Larry
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