Bastards

[breadlord]

Right. Someone needs to explain this to me;

I've just installed VS.NET 2003* and I want to know something.

HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS THING TAKE UP 2 AND A HALF GIGS OF SPACE WHEN I'VE DESELECTED EVERYTHING THAT'S BOLLOCKS?

HOW?
HOW?
HOW?

Let's do some maths shall we?

Compiler - 5mB(MAXLibraries - 150mB

Comments

[attack_monkey]

Did you install the help files and MSDN stuff? If so, there's yer monster bloat right there, those fuckers are MASSIVE.

[breadlord]

You're half right. It installed everything I told it not to. Obviously decided I wasn't clever enough to know I won't need J# and visual basic because it's a homo-gay ripoff of stuff you can get for free. AND all the "help manuals" - not the tech manuals, which is all I wanted.

The API Dox for Java - that's the whole damn thing including all the extra little APIs, web service shite, crypto, RMI, sockets... EVERYTHING weighs in at about 150 megs. And it doesn't need it's own gay little program and subscription to use. It's just a set of decently structured HTML.

[shadow_exe]

Microsoft product; What did you expect?

[breadlord]

I didn't expect this, fer fucks sake. The other stuff I use to develop with, like most of the GNU C library, Three versions of Java, Python, Perl, PHP and LaTeX (All with dox) don't quite amount to that much.

I just don't get it. It's a fucking re-write of Java with different parsers for each 'language' (Except it'll only run on windows) for knobheads who feel like their business is too damn stable and feel like buying Billy Boy some new techno-pants.

ARRGHHGHGH