Re: Proposal for a centralized Eclipse update manager site for Apache projects/software

2005-05-04 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Jeffrey Liu wrote: I want to propose a centralized Eclipse update manager site for Apache projects/software. Reason I propose an Eclipse update manager site for Would be excelent if it can be tied up with the existing dist/mirrored infrastructure for anything 'bulk'

RE: Proposals

2003-11-07 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not as much bandwidth... So lets design this a bit better then = make sure that it allows for the authoritative source to be on ASF[*] hardware (perhaps with an ASF signed key, sha1 or md5) - but it can be mirrored out through ibiblio, my local

RE: What does the repository enable?

2003-03-09 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
one of the issues with the descriptor approach is bandwidth. This very much depends. Yes - it is overhead (which may be small when well designed) - it may need superfluous TCP opens (when not too well designed) - but it also opens up a whole new set of optimizations, of efficient caching, of