On 07/03/2012 11:12, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
Houtan Bastani houtan.bastani@ens.fr writes:
I guess, if you want to offer a 200mb package, you should offer a 20mb package as well.
200 mb is a lot to download if you are on a slow internet connection, which maybe in advanced countries may not be a problem but in other countries it can be.
If you are in a developing country with a slow connection and not much money, you will likely not have MATLAB. So you will have to download Octave. The total download size is therefore the same whether we ship Octave or not in our installer.
With this solution the user would have to download octave for each updates of dynare... So I would also prefer, if we really have to distribute octave, to propose two packages (dynare and dynare+octave).
Also what about the size of the snapshot versions ?
à+ Stéĥane.