Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> While in the general case, I would agree with you, in this specific
> case, I think it's worth building on the client. 687MB is a very large
> download, over 90 minutes on a 1mbit/s link, and 45 minutes on a 2mbit/s
> link. Because of the large size and number of files, it also takes a
> non-trivial amount of time to actually install the rpm; on my laptop six
> minutes.
>
> In comparison, generating the html documents after installing root-*
> (excluding root-doc) took 37 minutes on my laptop. The total install
> time is the same for someone with someone with a 3mbit/s link, and
> client-side building is faster for someone with a slower link. At what
> point would you say it's worth the tradeoff?
You need to also think of slow computers. My Pentium 4 Northwood is not
going to be as fast at generating the files than a Core i7. And a Pentium
Pro (the oldest CPU we support) is going to be a lot slower than even my P4.
As for the Internet connection: I've just downloaded root-doc in 4 minutes,
at 2.5 megaBYTES per second. And that's in Vienna, Austria. There are places
with even faster Internet connections.
Not everyone has slow Internet and a fast CPU. In my case, it'd take 20+
times as long to build the documentation on the client than to download it!
Plus, there's also other technical issues, e.g. that the files generated
that way bypass RPM's file ownership concept.
Kevin Kofler
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