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Re: [Arx-users] New archive location
From: |
Walter Landry |
Subject: |
Re: [Arx-users] New archive location |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:50:53 -0700 (PDT) |
Kevin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> Walter Landry wrote:
> > There are two other things on superbeast that should probably just go
> > into the website: the codecon presentation and the expanded tarball of
> > the latest release. Kevin, if you could do that I would appreciate
> > it.
>
> I moved the codecon stuff.
>
> It took me a bit to figure out what you meant by "expanded tarball", but
> now I see (it's for the release notes, docs, and browseable source
> link). I never realized that the http-served archive wasn't also human
> readable.
>
> Anyway, I really don't want to put this on savannah. The way you update
> the web site in savannah is to check the site itself into CVS. Then it
> automatically propagates from the CVS repo to the web server.
>
> CVS doesn't have recursive add, so it would probably take me an hour
> just to check in all the tarball files in all the deeply nested
> directories. Then, each time we push a new version, I would have to do
> it again. Either they would accumulate (and it appears to be 100 megs?),
> or we would have to name the directory without a version, and each
> release would replace the one before. But I would still have to add any
> files that had been created in that version.
Wow. CVS sucks! I have an idea. Lets write a replacement ;)
> In short, I think it's the wrong tool for the job. Even if someone knows
> of (or writes) a cool cvs-recursive-add tool, there are still issues.
>
> Is there any chance of hosting it at adamantix? I would offer to host
> that part on my own server, but 100 megs is a non-trivial amount of data
> when you're paying hosting rates.
Peter Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
> Yeah, they can be hosted too. I can let http://arx.adamantix.org/ point to a
> directory where Walter can upload stuff.
That would be great. Just have it point to public_html.
Thanks,
Walter