On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com> wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Mark Tompsett <mtompset@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if other developers would care to comment on recommended
> disk space sizes for a git install on Bug 11830. Thank you!

More of a meta-level concern: I don't think INSTALL.${just_one_os} is
the right place to be expressing system specifications.

My patch was solely for INSTALL.ubuntu because that was the distro I installed on, the one on which I was surprised by how much disk space was required for a minimal git-based install, and the one on which I had actual numbers to measure. While other distros are probably similar, without actual concrete tests I was reluctant to put anything together for the other INSTALL files. I was just aiming for incremental improvement.

The wiki
would be a better place for that -- even better, although it would
depend on finding somebody willing to maintain it, would be a page on
the main website that gathers together recommend specs.

I agree with this direction, as long as the information lives somewhere and there are nice, clear pointers from the INSTALL.* files.

Thanks, all.