Re: [tdf-discuss] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc

Hi Todd,


2010/10/26 todd rme <toddrme2178@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:
> > Le 2010-10-26 08:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit :
> > > They do load separately. What makes you think they don't?
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: goldfish@aol.in [mailto:goldfish@aol.in]
> > > Sent: 26 October 2010 09:44
> > > To: discuss@documentfoundation.org; marketing@libreoffice.org
> > > Subject: [tdf-discuss] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc
> > >
> > > Hi,

[...]

> As I mentioned in another thread, I think a better solution would be
> an online installer (possibly the same software as an automatic
> updater).  You just download a small program, tell it what parts of
> libo you want, it pulls those parts and the necessary dependencies
> from a server (it could check several mirrors) and installs those
> pieces.   It could even walk them through the process, asking them
> what exactly they want to be able to do and then grabbing the programs
> necessary to do that.
>
> That way users wouldn't need to worry about which bits they need to
> download to get it working it, that is all handled automatically by
> the installer.  It also means that users don't need to worry about
> future changes in how the parts are broken up, this is all hidden from
> the user.
>
> It also means that when a user wants to install, say, writer and calc
> only, they don't need to download writer+libraries and calc+libraries
> (downloading the libraries twice), they can just download
> writer+calc+libraries.  This makes a huge difference since the
> libraries are by far the largest part of the suite (larger than the
> rest of the suite combined).

In principle, I like your idea. However, I see one drawback:
You have to rely on the internet connection that it is fast and
reliable. While this is true for most European and US/Canada, it is
not universal. And judging from my very own experience (I am in
Sweden!), I don't have a very reliable internet connection.

Sigrid

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