[plt-dev] component delivery, a social experiment

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Sam TH <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I personally don't see any value in leaving out the docs or DrScheme.
>> Everything is so small anyways and hard drive space is cheap... I
>> don't get the use case.
>
> I believe that there are people who want to install the text interface
> on systems where GUI libraries are not available.  But beyond that, I
> don't see a point.  However, before we make this hard, we might want
> to talk to the people who package PLT for Fedora/Debian/etc.

Some people don't use PLT because it is perceived as "bloated". They
would like a download that has only mzscheme and no documentation or
IDE.