Archisteamfarm: Disable language support & download

[Symbai]

Suggestion

Purpose

I really like when ASF only was a few files. Now it growed up to 40mb and has hundreds of hundreds of files in the directory. Guess that is just like it is now.

However what I want to suggest and I think it's useful not only for myself is an option in the config to disable language support and download.

I want ASF in English and I delete all the +400 language folders ASF creates on every update. But that turns out to be annoying as they are always downloaded and extracted/created on every new update.

Is it possible to make all the language things optional as separate download for those who really need them?

How can ASF users benefit from this suggestion?

• Less download size
• Less annoying files
• If a language file is REALLY needed, people can dowload THIS specific language theirselves (NOBODY needs +400 language files, especially as only 1 language can be active)

Why currently available solutions are not sufficient?

There is no "current solution". And a half-wokring solution that you just add a line in config to allow defining the language is less work for you, but still does not answer why everyone needs +400 language files to download and extract.

(Also i dont know why there has to be translation files at all. The config is E nglish only, the wiki is English only and without both, you cannot get ASF to run. So people who not speak/understand English cannot use your tool at all. But that might be a different discussion..)

[JustArchi]

Compressed size of all the language files is around 560 KB, which doesn't come even close to the overall size of 30 MB in OS-specific variant, and around 2.80 MB in generic variant, where localization is less than 20% of entire archive.

Making your solution possible would also mean making it even more complicated to install and use ASF, as now user would also need to explicitly download his native language files instead of just running a binary. +400 folders argument is invalid as this has no implications neither to performance nor actual usage, as it's the standard pattern that all localized programs are following, with Steam, .NET Core and Windows being prime examples.

In short, you didn't provide any counter-argument for cauing extra hassle not only for me to develop such feature (as that can be often skipped when discussing enhancement), but also for people to manually download your locale on each update, only because you don't want to see them. Like it's impossible to create shortcuts to ASF binary and config directory in some folder above.

I'm firmly denying this suggestion.

[Symbai]

(Also i dont know why there has to be translation files at all. The config is English only, the wiki is English only and without both, you cannot get ASF to run. So people who not speak/understand English cannot use your tool at all. But that might be a different discussion..)

However your reaction was expected. I'm just turning auto update off and stick to one version as all updates the past months are only minor changes, the core farming still works.