Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/05/02/04:30:08
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Nimrod A. Abing wrote:
> At 02:49 PM 04/30/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> >OTOH, I suspect DJ may have done this on purpose, to keep the bandwidth
> >requirements reasonably low.
[...]
> Very true. But it would be better if there were some other way of getting
> prerelease sources besides using CVS. This would enable others to test it
> more fully.
> >(Even Sourceforge doesn't provide automated snapshot tarballs, by default.
> >You have to do that yourself, as a project admin, if you want it).
>
> Is there even a remote possibility that nightly/weekly/monthly DJGPP CVS
> archives would be put in SourceForge with all concern to decreasing
> bandwidth demands on DJ's server?
There's always the possibility to register a project for the sole purpose
of using the filespace SourceForge provides. I.e. someone with the
type of net connection to be able to do it could run a weekly cron job
to 'cvs -z3 extract' the sources off DJ's public server, package them up
into a zip file, and upload that to SourceForge. All automatically.
If DJ did that himself, it might even save some bandwidth.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
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