Number of 3.3 hi-pri PRs going up

[Janis Johnson]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:24:58PM -0600, 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?
> 
> > 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.

See the "Short Cuts" section of http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/reghunt.html for
hints about chopping down an rsync repository for use in regression
hunts.

Janis