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Re: Number of 3.3 hi-pri PRs going up
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 12:24 pm, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 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?
>
Yes. The download time of the initial rsync copy.
Have you ever computed the bandwidth of a 747 packed with
cds?
Mike