Re: Bob Weiner: Re: efs 1.14 and XEmacs 19.12
Bob Weiner (weiner@footloose.sps.mot.com)
Wed, 9 Aug 95 09:13:04 CDT
>>>>> "MSP" == Michael Sperber [Mr Preprocessor] <Michael> writes:
>>> We could always have a vote amongst the beta testers. If more thumbs
>>> down than thumbs up, efs stays separate. ;-)
MS> Splitting is a bad idea indeed.
MS> Distribution size doesn't really figure into it looking at the size of
MS> other packages in the XEmacs tree which are used a lot less than
MS> ange-ftp is now and EFS will be.
To recap, my suggestion was that an EFS distribution similar in size to the
current ange-ftp (which basically provides the same behavior with fewer
features) be made. The maintainers of EFS seemed to agree that a 'core'
distribution is a good idea since they had already created such a thing. I
was not objecting to the size of a particular package but to the growth in
space needed to provide nearly the same functionality as is already provided.
I probably have way more disk space available than many other people, so
space is not a problem to me personally, but I thought this might be an area
where we could limit some growth without having much effect on the behavior
provided. If no one else feels this way, then by all means include a full
distribution of EFS.
Bob