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Re: Downloads
- From: "E. Weddington" <eric at umginc dot net>
- To: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- Cc: joe at laffeycomputer dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 08:57:26 -0600
- Subject: Re: Downloads
On 16 May 2003 at 10:27, Volker Reichelt wrote:
> BTW, does anybody actually *use* the seperate components?
> Given todays bandwidths and hard-disk sizes, I'd guess that everybody
> just grabs the full tarball (or the diffs).
> Maybe some only grab the core system (to get a system compiler).
Yes. I build up a binary release of a gcc cross-compiler for the AVR target
hosted on Windows (MinGW). I only need to grab the core and c++ components. My
Linux and FreeBSD companions do the same. There's also the possibility in the
future of adding ada as a front-end as well.
> Wouldn't it make sense to remove the seperate components (that should
> save bandwidth on the mirrors and simplify the release procedure)?
I would put my USD0.02 into removing the .gz files and just keeping .bz2, since
they're smaller files. Can't bzip2 be found on all platforms? I know it's
available on Windows.
Eric Weddington