On 8/18/06, Eugen Minciu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. I'm done supporting git now ;) Time for other ideas. > >From what has allready been presented I find anoncvs mirrors as a better > >approach to tarballs, as many of us actually don't have the bandwith to > >download a dist tarball every week. > > CVS has hooks from what I can see.Yay. So after every commit we could set > something up on the server to: > > Idea 1: > 1) export the directory main directory (like apps/e) > 2) make an archive of the export. > > Idea 2: > The zip utility can update only a part of the archive that has changed. You > could run something like zip -u e17 path/to/e17. I made a zip of the whole > e17 module, changed a single file then ran update. It ran and updated > everything in 11.5 seconds on my laptop. On your machine it could probably > happen in less then 5. > > Again, you could combine this with the above and generate archives like > apps_entrance.zip or whatever, which would update in less then a second. > > Thus, you could store just one version of the file at all times. People don't > get confused with versions, they're always in sync with the repo and they can > easily check if they're up to date with the help of md5 hashes. I could even > write you some script which checks to see if a user is up to date and > downloads the modified archives. >
Except that this would cause the file to be redownloaded every time a change happens. This will eat up far more bandwidth than using an anon repo (anoncvs, assuming users update) or with a base tarball with diff tarballs. (Just a random note, both Portage (Gentoo) and BitBake (OpenEmbedded) keep the checked out CVS tree around and simply update it for a new build. They also keep around the source tarballs that they download, although some people delete them for more space (although they of course shouldn't).) -- Justin Patrin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
