Re: Downloads

[Joe Laffey <joe@laffeycomputer.com>]

On Thu, 15 May 2003, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Thu, 15 May 2003, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> If you hide parts of the distribution, then for minor releases (e.g.
> 3.3.1) it would perhaps make sense to put the main tarball in a
> subdirectory with the main diffs at toplevel instead, to encourage people
> to use the diffs if they already have the previous release rather than
> downloading the whole new tarball, if the aim is to save bandwidth.
>

While it is true that this would save the most bandwidth I would guess
that more people prefer to just deal with the full tarball.

The goals was save the bandwidth wasted by downloading EVERYTHING, instead
of just the big tarball. But you do have a point... perhaps a README with
a pointer to directions for applying the diff or soemthing?? *shrug*

I am not trying to make more work for you, though! I was just an idea...

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