As I said, if you want to move it, I won't object.

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Akbari" 
To: "Developer discussions" 
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] CVS Organization Suggestion?


> Hi Mike,
>
> Of course you are right, that 8.6 megabytes isn't a lot in the scope of
> things these days. However what I meant in my original post was that
> 8.6 megabytes as a ratio to the 20.9 megabytes that currently make up
> the entire Csound source tree can be considered a lot, by volume.
>
> This is definitely not to downplay the importance of the tutorial
> though! I, for one appreciate the effort that went into its creation
> and hope that other end users feel the same way. In fact, if it were
> moved to its own dedicated CVS module, I would like to integrate Mac OS
> 9 and X support and documentation.
>
> The reason I advocate moving the tutorial folder to its own Csound CVS
> module is precisely because of the usefulness it provides. I can only
> see this vital resource improving and it really needs more room to
> grow, without having to bog down a general Csound5 source tree
> checkout.
>
> The idea is, that people who want only the Csound sources should be
> able to get them in the most streamlined way possible. The only reason
> I advocate omitting the valuable tutorial from this is so that it
> merely streamlines the focus of the 'csound5' module a bit more.
>
> However, my suggestion to move the tutorial to an additional CVS module
> does NOT mean it should be omitted from the canonical distribution, I
> just think it would speed up downloading the sources, without having to
> also retrieve several 500+ kb images.
>
>
>
> -David
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2006, at 8:02 PM, Michael Gogins wrote:
>
>> In what sense is 8.6 megabytes a lot these days? Do you have a dial-up
>> connection or a 20 gigabyte hard disk?
>>
>> I have no objection to somebody moving it, though.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Akbari" 
>> To: "Developer discussions" 
>> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 8:20 PM
>> Subject: [Cs-dev] CVS Organization Suggestion?
>>
>>
>>> Hi Developers,
>>>
>>> Upon doing repeated anonymous checkouts from CVS today to check
>>> various
>>> things, I noticed that there's a HUGE folder (8.6 megabytes!) called
>>> tutorial in the main source tree.
>>>
>>> While this is undoubtedly a very helpful component to have, I really
>>> would like to suggest that this folder be moved to its own branch of
>>> the CVS (just like "manual") so that the core application source code
>>> itself can be more easily and expediently obtained.
>>>
>>> At present time, the tutorial folder at 8.6 megabytes accounts for
>>> approximately 41% of the total space occupied by the csound5 source
>>> folder.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>> -David
>>>
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