Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20010502150222.0069637c@wingate> X-Sender: n_abing#ns DOT roxas-online DOT net DOT ph AT wingate X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:02:22 +0800 To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com From: "Nimrod A. Abing" Subject: Re: sbrk() storing the size of memory blocks In-Reply-To: References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 32 DOT 20010430165712 DOT 006cffa0 AT wingate> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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. > >The same problem can happen easily once you start to provide regular >development snapshots as a tarball: people will start to run cron jobs to >always download the latest tarball to their own machines, no matter >whether they actually need to have the latest and most potentially >instable stuff there is or not. This could cause bandwidth exhaustion on >DJ's server. 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. Okay, one could argue that this would lead to proliferation of unstable code which would be a Bad Thing for everyone involved. If this is what is feared to happen, then use an encrypted zip archive and send the decryption password to all djgpp-workers subcribers only. And hey, if the guy is smart enough to crack an encrypted zip archive, then one would guess that he's also smart enough to figure out what he's in for when he downloads potentially unstable code. >(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?