From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21011 invoked by alias); 16 May 2003 14:58:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 20993 invoked from network); 16 May 2003 14:58:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.atl.cbeyond.com) (64.238.96.29) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 May 2003 14:58:49 -0000 Received: from [64.238.96.22] (HELO mail.atl.cbeyond.com) by smtp.atl.cbeyond.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 27815188; Fri, 16 May 2003 10:58:48 -0400 Received: from [66.180.104.54] (HELO software1) by mail.atl.cbeyond.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 36917516; Fri, 16 May 2003 10:58:34 -0400 From: "E. Weddington" To: Volker Reichelt Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 14:58:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Downloads CC: joe@laffeycomputer.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Message-ID: <3EC4A7F6.14301.40260E5@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <200305160827.h4G8RqNZ015149@relay.rwth-aachen.de> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg01601.txt.bz2 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