Re: GNOME hosting
- From: "Chris J. DiBona" <chris dibona com>
- To: David Mason <dcm redhat com>
- Cc: jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>, gnome-sysadmin gnome org, gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: GNOME hosting
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:45:49 -0800 (PST)
I'm of the opinion that diskspace is cheap, and finding a binary for some
old package that to rebuild would be troubling is a good thing.
But so long as old sourcecode is around, it's not awful to kill binaries.
Chris
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On 8 Mar 2001, David Mason wrote:
> "Chris J. DiBona" <chris dibona com> writes:
>
> > yes, history of old packages is important. It's why we created sourceforge
> > in the first place, we'd go to find old packages and they wouldn't be easy
> > to find.
>
>
> There is a difference between archives of important things - and
> millions of binaries for one app. To pick on Gnumeric (just because it
> comes to mind) there were releases that lasted a few hours - we don't
> need those binaries. We have a section in ftp which has major GNOME
> milestones - we should keep that - it is interesting, it is
> history. We should not keep old binaries that are not interesting and
> do not provide much historical context to GNOME.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
> --
>
>
> David Mason
> Red Hat Advanced Development Labs
> dcm redhat com (919)547-0012 x248
>
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