From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27133 invoked by alias); 13 Dec 2001 23:23:40 -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 27112 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2001 23:23:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2001 23:23:37 -0000 Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at ([128.130.111.12]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 16EfCS-0005Gb-00 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:23:36 -0500 Received: from [128.130.111.23] (pulcherrima [128.130.111.23]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBDNMsW18928; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:22:54 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:28:00 -0000 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Matthew Langford , Phil Edwards cc: gcc@gnu.org Subject: Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html In-Reply-To: <20011213143953.A14040@disaster.jaj.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00738.txt.bz2 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 -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/