Re: downloads
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Mechiel Lukkien<mechiel@...> wrote:
> the .tgz (with fonts) can be made smaller btw. the .hg/ dir contains all
> the information to reconstruct all (the latest) versions of the files.
> so all the "checked out" files (except the additional fonts) could be
> removed. then after extracting the .tgz (giving just the .hg/ dir and
> the fonts), a "hg update" will reconstruct all files. a quick test
> shows that this makes the .tgz (with fonts) go from ~50MB to ~31MB.
I fear that would make the new system slightly less useful for those
who did not already have Mercurial installed, wouldn't it? Ie,
there's a separate step to go from a downloaded tarball to a working
directory tree.