On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:39, chromatic <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.) > i've contacted osuosl about an rsync mirror, and they seem to think it'll be quite easy to set up with their existing infrastructure, so i created a ticket for that.
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