[sword-devel] *.conf qualifier, InstallSize

[Chris Little]

I added it to the page long, long ago, but I couldn't give the details 
exactly of why.

Personally, I have no interest in updating all of the existing .confs to 
add the install size, and have no desire to do it on an ongoing basis as 
part of the release process. If we can add it as an automated process, 
that's fine/great.

Adding InstallSize doesn't really give the whole picture when it comes 
to modules like the Dore woodcuts, anyway. They take much longer to 
download than their relative size would suggest because of the many 
files they contain, rather than their size alone.

--Chris


Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Karl,
> 
> I'm not sure I remember every hearing about this.  I wonder who added it 
> to the page.  If the size of the module needs to be know, I would rather 
> have a method call in the engine that uses the transport to compute the 
> size.  Actually, I think this is already done, because the windows 
> installer provides 2 progress bars: current file, and overall.
> 
> Now my memory could be bad and someone on #sword might have lobbied for 
> this, but I sure don't remember.
> 
> 	-Troy.
> 
> 
> 
> Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
>> I was looking through
>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/DevTools:Modules
>> and happened to notice for the first time the InstallSize qualifier:
>>
>> "InstallSize - <integer (indicating bytes)>"
>>
>> Because some of the modules I've got in my repo are so large (most
>> obviously, DoreWoodcuts, 71M; some others with limited distribution in
>> the 10-50M range), now and again I have wanted to be able to make it
>> obvious via the module manager just how big the available modules are.
>>
>> However, looking through mods.d/*, I find not a single instance of this
>> qualifier being used.
>>
>> Would it be worth the imposition to get this qualifier into all the
>> currently existing mods.d/* at Crosswire?  If I could count (generally,
>> even if unreliably) on such a thing, I would be happy to update the GS
>> module manager to display it, in the hopes that other folks implementing
>> UIs would do the same.  Then users could make an educated decision as to
>> whether they want to spend either link time or disc space to get really
>> big modules.
>>
>> OTOH, if it's considered insufficiently helpful, then I won't bother.
>>
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