From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5717 invoked by alias); 15 May 2003 22:25:19 -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 5637 invoked from network); 15 May 2003 22:25:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ubermail.laffeycomputer.com) (66.165.104.104) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 May 2003 22:25:18 -0000 Received: from alfred (alfred [66.165.104.104]) by ubermail.laffeycomputer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7BE25802; Thu, 15 May 2003 17:25:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 22:25:00 -0000 From: Joe Laffey To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: Gerald Pfeifer , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Mark Mitchell Subject: Re: Downloads In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg01561.txt.bz2 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... -- Joe Laffey | Want to convert subnet masks between different LAFFEY Computer Imaging | notations, or figure the number of IPs in a block? St. Louis, MO | Whatmask-It's FREE - www.laffeycomputer.com/wm.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------