On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:18:35AM +0200, Philip Nienhuis wrote: > Admittedly there's some overhead inside. What's the problem with that? > > On this box I have a complete MinGW/MSYS development environment > installed, plus 5 or 6 Octave-MinGW versions including MSYS + a lot > more. It takes up a bit of disk space, true, but these days that > shouldn't be a problem.
I suggest you take a moment and take SF's perspective. >From their website, they say that they have had 4 millions downloads *today*. Let's pretend that just 1% of those downloads included msys, which has about 3 MB according to http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Base/msys-core/msys-1.0.11/ That's 120 GB of network traffic on one(!) day just for MSYS. If you were to distribute this via Amazon's S3 (0.12$/GB)[1], that's roughly 12$/day. At the end of a year, that's 4000$ - again, just for MSYS. FWIW, one of the reasons for dropping the m68k architecture from Debian was the fact that a full Debian mirror exceeded 100GB in harddisk space and most mirror operators could not justify that much space. Now, the numbers may vary (especially the 1% above is probably too high), but then again we have only talked about msys and nothing else. So please, don't take your local hard disk as reference for what forms a problem in software distribution. [1] http://aws.amazon.com/de/s3/pricing/ Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
