Re: [Arx-users] New archive location

[Kevin Smith]

Walter Landry wrote:
> There are two other things on superbeast that should probably just go
> into the website: the codecon presentation and the expanded tarball of
> the latest release.  Kevin, if you could do that I would appreciate
> it.

I moved the codecon stuff.

It took me a bit to figure out what you meant by "expanded tarball", but 
now I see (it's for the release notes, docs, and browseable source 
link). I never realized that the http-served archive wasn't also human 
readable.

Anyway, I really don't want to put this on savannah. The way you update 
the web site in savannah is to check the site itself into CVS. Then it 
automatically propagates from the CVS repo to the web server.

CVS doesn't have recursive add, so it would probably take me an hour 
just to check in all the tarball files in all the deeply nested 
directories. Then, each time we push a new version, I would have to do 
it again. Either they would accumulate (and it appears to be 100 megs?), 
or we would have to name the directory without a version, and each 
release would replace the one before. But I would still have to add any 
files that had been created in that version.

In short, I think it's the wrong tool for the job. Even if someone knows 
of (or writes) a cool cvs-recursive-add tool, there are still issues.

Is there any chance of hosting it at adamantix? I would offer to host 
that part on my own server, but 100 megs is a non-trivial amount of data 
when you're paying hosting rates.

Kevin