Distributing large files (was: Re: "octave.sf.net bandwidth exceeded")

[John W. Eaton]

On 01/08/2014 04:36 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> The other option is to just distribute from ftp.gnu.org (and the
> mirrors).  For comparison, the Windows binary distribution of Emacs is
> about 50MB.  I'd guess that's the largest single file that's
> distributed from ftp.gnu.org.  If we go this route, I think we should
> be asking for permission first.

I was wrong.  The gcc-4.8.2.tar.bz2 file is around 83MB and the tar.gz 
file is close to 100MB...

jwe