Re: Is gnome-i18n module too fat?

[Yanko Kaneti <yaneti declera com>]

On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 12:10, R.I.P. Deaddog wrote:
> Currently, the gnome-i18n module takes a long time to check out, partly
> due to the Sun l10n style guides inside gnome-i18n module. It looks like
> we could have saved around 25% of space/time by compressing the
> PostScript files and FrameMaker sources in style guides:
> 
> [deaddog@localhost CVS.GNOME.ORG]$ du -s gnome-i18n*
> 77852   gnome-i18n
> 56488   gnome-i18n.compressed
> 
> I think compressing them won't cause any problem, since there is no
> change since the first commit 2 years ago, and it's unknown at all if
> there will be any future update.
> 
> Now another question remains: what should be used to compress them?
> bzip2? gzip?

Big binary files have no business in CVS imho.


Regards
Yanko