* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-11-26 23:55:48]:
> > > Being hosted at SourceForge, I can't see bandwidth being a problem? > > > > We left SourceForge years ago because of their chronical unreliability. > > Nonetheless, the bandwidth cost for downloading all the plugins on every > install is marginal. > > > > > But since you want some figures: I just did a test install. Downloading > > > and setting up the plugins took the installer ~10 seconds on a 2 year > > > old mainstream laptop with Windows XP. The plugins take up 383 KB. I > > > don't know how many people that uncheck any or all of the plugins before > > > installing, but I doubt it's a large part. Even if *everybody* unchecked > > > all plugins in the installer and we assume nobody will ever install them > > > later on, the overhead would be less than 4% of the ~10 MB that was > > > downloaded during the install. In reality, that number will be *much* > > > smaller as many people *will* install the plugins. If SourceForge can't > > > keep up with that little extra bandwidth, I'll be glad to donate. > > > > We did call for mirrors a while back, and we usually do before we > > announce any new release. > > > > Right now we have 6 working ones and 13 configured. > > Why are you squabbling over 400K out of 10MB? Because if we go down that path you will end up willing us to ship the full offline installer... and that will prevent us to do statistics on the number of nodes installed/uninstalled. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081127/d0362067/attachment.pgp>
