On Tuesday 03 February 2009 10:42:32 Allison Randal wrote:

> We don't currently have any plans to maintain an http:// version, rsync
> mirror snapshots, or nightly tarballs. (On the whole, it was just a bit
> too much TMTOWTDI. We don't really have people to help newbies out if
> they run into problems on one of the "non-standard" routes, nor did we
> ever test the "non-standard" routes.) If this is a significant pain
> point, let us know and we'll see what we can do.

An rsync mirror would be very convenient for people who don't update their SVN 
repositories very often, or who have trouble installing SVN locally.  (Given 
most of an hour to check out changes from month to month on my PPC laptop or 
10 minutes running rsync, I prefer the latter.)

-- c
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