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RE: Why do people still insist on including uneccessary files

• Posted by Dave Probert <zingo at purpletiger.com> Dec 22, 2004
• 628 views

So basically what you're saying is that Everyone should include a copy of
Win32Lib with every program they release, just in case it's different than the
standard release! and so that it can bloat a download by an extra 350K for no
real reason!!  You guys are Mad.  Isn't it so much easier if the contributor
simply states in the description that it requires win32lib 0.52 (or above), et
voila!, smaller downloads, less storage, reduced bandwidth usage (Rob - you
should enforce this!) and a much easier to follow set of files - pertinant to the
product instead of mixed in with a pile of w32xxx stuff and so forth.

Take, for example, the recently contributed Labour.zip (400k) - requires
win32lib, eugrid.  Actual files for the application itself amounts to a zip of 9k
(Yep!  Nine kilobytes)

And was it worth the download - NO.  Anyone could have got that in a couple of
seconds even on a slow 28k modem and, if they didn't have the required libraries,
then why did they download it in the first place??

Give really, really good reasons why people SHOULD include everything - not a
half-assed suggestion to waste our time.

Learn to think of others apart from just yourselves.

Dave

PS.  My next upload will include the whole of the Windows OS just so you might
have it for a single line of code I wrote!!! (Sarcasm)

Ferlin Scarborough wrote:
> 
> Chris Bensler wrote:
> > 
> > It bothers me more when I download something that doesn't work. And with
> > more versions of win32lib than you can shake a stick at, it's much
> > easier to just include the lib.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> Chris,
> 
> I agree, I have a 56K modem that I connect to the internet with, and very
> poor phone service (static and all) that causes me to connect at speeds 
> around 21 kps most times, and that's even slower.
> 
> I would rather click on a link and download 1 file that has everything I need
> than to download a program, read a readme file and discover that I can not
> run the program because it REQUIRES that I download another 2 or 3 or more
> files in order to get the libraries it needs.  Most of the time that is 
> enough to make me delete the program and not even look at it.
> 
> Please give me all necessary files in ONE download.
> 
> Later.
> 
> Ferlin Scarborough
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