Re: GnuCash page on GO site

At 12:14 PM 2/19/2004, Josh Sled wrote:


>Hmm. So long as the apps are all leveraging the same library, this
>may be true.  I think the situation you don't want to end up in is one
>where there's this horrendously large multi-function library, which each
>application only uses a small part of, but must be installed to get any
>one of them to work individually.  Note this applies to a set of smaller
>libraries, as well.

   Well, the all-in-one installer is an important part of the project from 
a "Gaining customers" ( by customers I mean traditional software uses as 
opposed to users comfortable with the current and previous states of 
installing open source apps. :) )

   Admittedly, I feel strongly also about the ability to produce sellable 
manuals and CDs as a way to pay for whatever resources projects need.  I 
clearly look at some of these things differently than ya'll and while I 
don't think there is an explicit right way,  I hope some heed is paid to my 
occasional "traditional make money sounding ideas" because they apply to 
growing the user base which is just as important in many ways.

   That said, any monolithic installer should be bright enough to turn off 
packages we don't want/need and be bright enough to skip irrelevant 
dependencies.


>Some might say that it's even more important on Linux, because of all
>the choices available.

    Very good point. Particularly when introducing mom to your favorite 
Penguin or Demon.