Re: [Arx-users] New archive location

[Walter Landry]

Kevin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Wow.  CVS sucks!  I have an idea.  Lets write a replacement ;)

> 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.

Peter Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
> Yeah, they can be hosted too. I can let http://arx.adamantix.org/ point to a
> directory where Walter can upload stuff.

That would be great.  Just have it point to public_html.

Thanks,
Walter