size of release sets (was Re: [Clipart] Open Clip Art Library - Release 0.06)

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> 
> > There is also considerably more clipart in this release than before.
> > We've grown from 721 items in the 0.05 release to over 1700 unique
> > images in this one, with a corresponding increase in the size of the
> > package from 4.2M to over 12M.
> 
> When will the project begin splitting it up into separate tar balls?
> 
> Maybe whenever there is around 10MB to split out?

We've talked about having some form of custom dynamic tarball generation
for people looking for specific sets of clip art.  Of course, that
capability is kind of complicated, and so is predicated on having a
backend document management system that can present these dynamic
"views" of the data.  This "DMS" is the next thing in the plan to focus
on.  

Bryce