On 6 December 2010 17:02, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Niklas Laxström wrote: A few days ago the issue came up where I was talking with an end user who was complaining about MediaWiki being too large (in the server, not in the tarball) compared to other apps like wordpress. I think there's a use case for providing a mediawiki download where the end user can check which languages they want and provide a custom download. And/or document how to strip some languages from mediawiki.
How hard can it be? find languages/messages/ -name "Messages*.php" -and -not -name "MessagesEn.php" -delete Or use some fancy graphical ui to do the same.
What comes to the tarball.. 8,0M mediawiki-1.16.0.7z 13M mediawiki-1.16.0.tar.gz
This is very simple to implement with no big downsides (we can continue providing both formats).
And here's the same with all message files stripped out: 2,0M mw-lite.7z 2,8M mw-lite.tar.gz
It might look cool, and someone can provide those if he wants, but I think the default release tarball should contain all languages.
-Niklas