Results of the App Installer Meeting

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le jeudi 27 janvier 2011 15:30:31, Richard Hughes a écrit :
> On 27 January 2011 13:53, Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> wrote:
> > Another way to do it without making the xml file grow too much would be
> > to have one xml file containing only package descriptions per language.
> > It uses some space on mirrors, but not that much (especially because the
> > number of applications is really smaller than the number of packages).
> 
> I thought we agreed it would be better to have all the languages in
> one file, rather than having 130 files all with a few k of text
> inside? Lots of tiny files really hurts read and write performance.
> (130*number of repos installed = thousands)
> 

Yes, we agreed about "one-line" summaries all in the same file (including their 
translations), but not "one-paragraph" descriptions, which leaves the subject 
open :)

Samuel