Karl Fogel wrote:
> Max Bowsher <[email protected]> writes:
>> I think we should remove the people.canonical.com/~herb/ tarball.
>>
>> 1) It's of db-devel, not devel. Not what a beginner developer wants.
>>
>> 2) It's a standalone tree, not a shared repository plus branch, as is
>> customary for LP development.
>>
>> 3) It's badly affected by early 2a fragmentation, a modern bzr version
>> packs that repository down from 219MB to 150MB.
>>
>> 4) It ships a working tree, if the goal is to minimize download size,
>> that's counterproductive.
>>
>> 5) It's sufficiently out of date at this point that you still have ~25MB
>> to pull it up to date.
>>
>> Alternatively we could rectify all of the above and republish it.


> IMHO, we should remove it simply because it will be ongoing complexity
> if we don't.

Oh, that too :-)

Accordingly I've removed the link from https://dev.launchpad.net/Getting.

Max.


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