Great ... i belive a lot in this new project of TDF ... but i asked me: was not better just a single language package than a multilanguage installation?
now the installation is more harder and slower for the portable application imho ...
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The reason for this decision is given in The Document Foundation's blog (http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/01/25/the-document-foundation-la...):
I agree that it would be better if portable version was as small as possible, but I guess that repackaging would be much harder and more time consuming.
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I read that explanation from TDF earlier and was confused. A single language version should be smaller than a multi-language version. It's only now that it occurs to me that they must be referring to the amount of disk space required at the download site. ([number of languages] * [single language size] = 75GB, 1 * [multi-language size] = 11GB).
I'm still confused though. I would have thought that bandwidth would be more important than disk space to a download site and having everyone download a larger multi-language version is going to increase the bandwidth required.
i'm agree with u CNB. ... i've same doubts ...
My 2 cents in: A vote for keeping it multilingual.
The big difference in size is actually 3.3 itself. A local English-only install of LibreOffice 3.3 is 440MB (excluding your data). The full multi-lingual LibreOffice 3.3 contained in LibreOffice Portable (excluding your data) is 421MB.
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