Subject: Proposal: new doc module in the CVS repository
From: Jaime Villate
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:08:57 +0100
On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 11:09 -0600, Robert Dodier wrote:
> 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?
Hi Robert,
by just moving archive and the non-English the translations of doc we
could already reduce the size of the repository in 25%.
I get numbers a bit different from yours; here are the values I get,
showing only big directories:
6184 ./share/contrib
1964 ./share/draw
5292 ./share/lapack
20720 ./share
2784 ./src/numerical
7496 ./src
1472 ./interfaces/emacs
1456 ./interfaces/xmaxima
3348 ./interfaces
3240 ./archive
1416 ./tests
1184 ./doc/tutorial/es
1872 ./doc/tutorial
9708 ./doc/info ---> languages different from en
4692 ./doc/info/figures
17724 ./doc/info
21048 ./doc
58660 TOTAL
14820 (25%) archive + tutorial + languages different from en
Moving archive and translations of the manual won't break things. If you
approve, I can take care of that move.
Other thing to keep in mind is the following: 63% of doc/tutorial
belongs to doc/tutorial/es, because Mario has been very active with the
Spanish documentation and there are other books there in addition to
"Minimal Maxima".
I would also like to commit my book on Dynamical Systems to the
repository; as it is right now, just the sources take 16916 bytes, which
would increase the repository by another 25%; and once I start
translating it into English that figure will increase.
Regards,
Jaime