Brion Vibber wrote:
Offhand suggestion: can we pack/compress the language files in a way that keeps them smaller on the server but leaves them usable?
-- brion
We can provide them gzipped and require them with compress.zlib:// prepended to the filename. That will work magically™ as far as the zlib extension is enabled (which almost always will be the case). We can perform the same magic with bzip2 but it may be a less frequent extension.