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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
in my opinion, the installer should have only the pdf of the
documentation, odt files are not really needed.

Regarding components data sheets I think that they should not really
be included in the kicad installer, I however understand the people
who would want them. how about only a selected number of data sheets?

Regards
Fabrizio






On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:34 AM, hauptmech <hauptmech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/14/2012 01:58 PM, jean-pierre charras wrote:
>>
>> Le 14/01/2012 11:03, hauptmech a écrit :
>>>
>>> Opinions on removing the datasheets from the library to reduce the size
>>> of the installer?
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>> What is the interest to reduce the size of installer (less than 200Mb)
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> For myself, I don't always have access to a fat pipe and in New Zealand I
> pay for every byte of traffic. My main reason for asking is to follow up on
> a post in the questions section about splitting the installer into two
> parts.
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>> A lot of software has (by far) a larger size.
>> Such an EDA software needs of course binaries,
>> but also libraries, tutorials and docs are also mandatory.
>> Data sheets are part of doc.
>> No doc, useless software.
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> In 5 years of using KiCad (though I don't use it often) I have never looked
> at the datasheet PDF's provided with KiCad. I do use datasheets. I have a
> large number that I use for reference when designing... just not the same
> ones.
>
> If I did use a part for which KiCad has a datasheet... I would first check
> the manufacturers website for the latest revision of the document. So there
> is no win for me to have a datasheet from KiCad.
>
> In my opinion: A url to the manufactures page on the part is much more
> useful.
>
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>>> Also we are distributing the source files for the help documents which
>>> takes a bit of extra space.
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>> No doc, useless software.
>
> 2x Docs (pdf & ODT) => 1x useless docs
>
> Some numbers using the latest linux tarball as a reference:
>  untar
>  remove all */docs_src
>  remove share/libraries/doc
>  tar
>
> 200Mb -> 100Mb
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> That's the low hanging fruit...
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