Subject: Proposal: new doc module in the CVS repository
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:09:31 -0600
On 4/23/10, Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:
> Much less than the time it will take a user to download a few megabytes
> of documents in Korean, which perhaps he cannot even read, when doing a
> "cvs update".
Well, I hadn't thought about the size of the files involved.
I looked at the files in a clean CVS sandbox and here's
what du says.
28560 ./share
25236 ./doc
9508 ./src
4976 ./archive
4940 ./interfaces
1928 ./tests
556 ./lisp-utils
216 ./demo
136 ./plotting
104 ./admin
92 ./locale
56 ./LICENSES
Hmm, so the doc directory is pretty big indeed.
The majority of it is the reference manual (doc/info).
21052 doc/info
2288 doc/tutorial
728 doc/misc
408 doc/emaxima
172 doc/intromax
172 doc/implementation
164 doc/man
108 doc/share
64 doc/maximabook
48 doc/CVS
8 doc/Makefile.am
8 doc/contributors
The directories which you proposed to move, doc/tutorial and
doc/maximabook, are relatively small, so it doesn't seem like
there is much to gain by moving them. However, if the entire
doc directory were moved, that would make a substantial difference.
Should we consider moving doc itself? It would mess up the
build system, although I suppose we could figure it out. Thoughts?
best
Robert Dodier