Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Matthew Langford wrote:
> And yet, as I mentioned, there must be a gazillion GNU mirror sites.
> You _know_ they are mirroring, and they are mirroring a gzipped release
> of your software.

I assume you missed the fact that
  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.1.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.2.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/gcc-2.95.3.html
and
  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.0/ has been
have been referring to the GNU mirror sites for years, right?

> Why not mention _them_ on your downloads page?

That's a good suggestion, and I will try to add this tomorrow. (Note,
though, that the GNU site only carries a subset of what's on gcc.gnu.org
and most of its mirrors, namely current GCC releases.)

> [...] the poor saps who walked to your ivory tower and volunteered their
> mirrors?

Please tone down. Phil is a volunteer, I am a volunteer, and most others
here are volunteers as well; no money, little honor, few thanks.

> The link to the actual gcc.org download is spelled out but not an active
> link.  I suppose this is to strongly encourage people to use the mirrors.

Right.

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Phil Edwards wrote:
> Mostly it's nothing more than a lack of time on the part of the
> volunteers at either end.  No hoarding, no ivory-tower syndrome, just
> lack of time.

Exactly!

> I'll ignore the rest of your flames and just explain this:  gcc.gnu.org
> is extremely overloaded.  For that reason anonymous FTP has been severely
> restricted (and I think it's been disallowed completely on some of the
> more popular projects).  We're trying to move anonymous CVS access off
> onto another system also.

Yup, and that seems to work fine now; I already have a patch and will
update the corresponding GCC page tomorrow. (Again, Matthew, also this
has been handled by volunteers exclusively.)

Gerald
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