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

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Sigrid Carrera
<sigrid.carrera@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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

Certainly, it would be a terrible idea to eliminate the existing
offline installer.

-Todd

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