Re: GNOME hosting

["Chris J. DiBona" <chris dibona com>]

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
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> David Mason
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