From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Joe Laffey <joe@laffeycomputer.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: Downloads
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 19:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.55.0305152103370.16396@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0305151232090.24978@alfred.laffeycomputer.com>
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Joe Laffey wrote:
> I run the mirror mirrors.laffeycomputer.com. I notcie that a good number
> of people are too ignorant to read the documentation first, and they
> download ALL the files within the directory of a particular release.
Ouch. Thanks for letting us know!
> I bet you could save yourself and the mirrors (and the users) some
> bandwidth by placing all of the individual files that are included in the
> main tarball (e.g. gcc-3.3.tar.gz) into a subfolder called something like
> "separate_components".
This is an excellent suggestion, and unless there are strong objection,
I will move all components and diff files into new subdirectories called
"components" and "diffs", respectively, tomorrow morning.
(Mark, what do you think?)
Gerald
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Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-15 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-15 17:35 Downloads Joe Laffey
2003-05-15 19:05 ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]
2003-05-15 19:21 ` Downloads Joe Laffey
2003-05-15 22:22 ` Downloads Joseph S. Myers
2003-05-15 22:25 ` Downloads Joe Laffey
2003-05-16 8:38 Downloads Volker Reichelt
2003-05-16 10:09 ` Downloads Gerald Pfeifer
2003-05-16 10:20 ` Downloads Joseph S. Myers
2003-05-19 21:01 ` Downloads Karl Eichwalder
2003-05-19 21:04 ` Downloads Joseph S. Myers
2003-05-20 16:17 ` Downloads Karl Eichwalder
2003-05-20 18:24 ` Downloads Joseph S. Myers
2003-05-16 19:24 ` Downloads Mark Mitchell
2003-05-16 14:58 ` Downloads E. Weddington
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