* Chady Kassouf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 8/17/06, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >personally i would have no problem in a server-side auto-build of > >tarballs. what do people think? should we perhaps have the anoncvs > >server do daily (or maybe several times per day) builds of packages? > >not rpm or deb but "make dist"; ie something like the following run > >maybe every 4 or 8 hours? once a day? > I think that while this option might be useful for load, it takes a > lot more bandwidth, and is bad for users, as they would have to > download hundreds of megabytes each time a 1 Kb patch is in. > > I vote for the cvs mirrors as at least it's easier on the user's AND > the server's bandwidth.
Eventually I'll corner KainX and he'll tell me what setting I don't have in mutt to read raster's emails other than through quotes.. anyway.. Were I suggesting merely a new tarball every day, then I'd agree. My argument was for a weekly tarball and patches otherwise (and it doesn't just have to be patches since the last weekly tarball). A lot of CPU time and some bandwidth is consumed determining what changed since the last time you sync'd up. If you _knew_ where that last sync point was (e.g., yesterday's diff), then you'd be saving everyone a lot of resources by just getting the pregenerated, precompressed version, instead of making CVS do the diff, compressing on the fly (I'd like to believe most people are using -z3 :)). As I read over and over that people are using scripts to retrieve everything (be it ebuilds or hand-rolled), this could easily be switched to. * Hisham Mardam Bey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 8/17/06, Lyle Kempler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally I don't get why we're not creating nightly diffs and a > > tarball once a week and letting people use that (it's not exactly > > difficult to script). I highly doubt most users care about checkins > > in the last few hours, and I suggested doing so I think way back in > > January on IRC.. > Actually they are. You'd be surprised how many people build E (and > related stuff) multiple times a day from anoncvs. Again, I agree with > the majority that is suggesting the mirrors idea. CVS has its quirks > here and there, but its been doing everything we wanted for a long > time. I think that having a 2 or 3 anoncvs mirrors should solve our > problems. I am actually surprised that so many people are "a CVS junkie" :) .. that's good feedback to have. I never advocated dumping the anoncvs servers. I was saying that we could reduce demand (and therefore improve performance for the remainder) by providing tarballs. And, as raster said, there's nothing keeping us from producing patches every 4 hours, etc.. term ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
