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Re: Number of 3.3 hi-pri PRs going up
Steven Bosscher wrote:
>
> Op di 25-02-2003, om 18:47 schreef Phil Edwards:
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:48:10AM -0800, Janis Johnson wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 08:56:53AM -0600, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > Getting that initial rsync copy is the real killer here.
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to burn a copy of the CVS repository on CD's once
> > > > every month (or two, or three, or...)?
> > > > Then post where the CD-ROM's can be purchased.
> > > > Perhaps one of the GCC based vendors could do that for
> > > > the project as a step towards getting more regression hunting /
> > > > bug fixing underway.
> > >
> > > I doubt that there would be much of a demand for those CDs,
> >
> > Seconded.
>
> Yeah, just a "burn-on-demand" availability should be enough.
Would it be sufficient for a cron job to make an tarball of the
CVS repository available for download say once a week?
Was the "mail a CD" offer just to avoid the bandwidth issue?
> > > > Then post where the CD-ROM's can be purchased.
> > > > Perhaps one of the GCC based vendors could do that for
> > > > the project as a step towards getting more regression hunting /
> > > > bug fixing underway.
> >
> > Shoot, I'd do it for free if I had a CD burner.
>
> The current rsync repository is almost 1GB (it was +/- 950 MB on
> December 2, 2002, and we have a new branch now and a new C++ parser), so
> unless you can compress it to about 50% of that, you're not even going
> to be able to burn it on a single CD.
bzip2 is usually pretty good at compressing things so if you could
get 2-3x compression, it should fit.
> > Blanks are actually
> > cheaper than paper around here, and postage (for the few people wanting
> > a CD) would cost less than what I spend on caffeine in a typical day.
>
> You should stop drinking redbull then :-)
>
> Greetz
> Steven
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