On 28/03/16 15:59, Michal Kubecek wrote: >> But still clone of Firebird repository is 10 times bigger than its >> > sources. > That's one way to look at it. Another way is to say it's about 0.18 EUR > of disk space in case of a SSD and 0.02 EUR in case of classical > magnetic disk.
Another way to look at it is it's a bloody expensive download for somebody paying by the MB. Okay, I don't know when I last paid by the MB - I switched to an unmetered 64K line sometime round the beginning of the century - but even today there are people who's only phone is a mobile, and calling plans are expensive. (By western standards American calling plans seem to be extortionate, but that's probably cheap compared to Africa. And do we really want to exclude parts of the world based on the cost of phone connections?) My reaction to all this, though, was "why not put a recent shallow clone on bittorrent?" Update it once a month or so, and those people who have expensive - or flaky! - internet connections can download that, and then a "git pull" to update will be pretty small and quick. They can do a deep update later if they want. Cheers, Wol ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
