Konovalov, Vadim Vladimirovich (Vadim)** CTR ** writes:
> I suggest to not include generated files into the distribution.
> So it would be very great if PostScript and PDF files are removed, just because they're generated out of TEX.
> All of these could be available from elsewhere.
>
> But even of more concern is duplicating a lot of files in, for example, "es" and "es.utf8" directories.
> Freshly unpacked 5-11-0 distribution contains 94 binary identical files within these two directories, of more than 3.5 MBytes of wasted space.
> Same thing for "pt" subdirectories.
> With all the respect to translated material, what the need for duplication?
>
> Is it possible to generate non-UTF8 out from UTF8, or vice-versa?
>
> I can write some 10-lines Perl script to do the encoding. Is it possible to use Perl within makefiles?
First of all I don't understand why to care too
much about size of _source_ distribution.
For 5.11 it is 14Mb of which 1Mb is es.utf8/pt.utf8 overhead.
Is this really too much? Yes it is more than this in
unpacked sources but who keep unpacked sources for
long time.
On the other hand lang + lang.utf8 is indeed an overhead
and it would be nice to eliminate it.
Your guess is right - the motivation is to make
installation form source tarball Perl-free.
We don't need Perl to recode files we need Perl
to create help system index files for .info and .html
documentation.
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
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