On Dec 22, 2:02 am, NightStrike <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently an admin of a sourceforge project, mingw-w64. We have
> ported the gcc/binutils toolchain to Win64 to allow usage of a free
> compiler on Win64 platforms. Most are already familiar with the mingw
> project -- this is similar, and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit
> platforms.
>
> Now, sourceforge is a great service (and hey, it's free), but I
> thought that google code might more align with our project goals.
> However, before doing anything, there are some issues that will
> definitely get in the way, and I wanted to do some feasibility
> analysis before doing anything.
>
> First and foremost is the project size. We release complete
> toolchains, which range from 150 to 200 MB in size. We make these
> snapshots daily for 5 different platforms. That means about 1GB of
> files are added to the file release area every day. Here is where I
> cannot complain in the slightest about sourceforge, as they do not
> impose any size restrictions on us. Google will, however, as that is
> a lot of data.
>
> To control the data amount, keeping things manageable (and to reduce
> the load on sourceforge), I cull the releases roughly at the two-month
> mark. I move old releases to an "Old Releases" package, and every so
> often, I go in there and delete files that are just too old to be
> considered at all useful. So at any given time, I think we have what
> is safe to describe as a "ginormous" amount of data that we are
> providing, and we are constantly deleting old toolchains that are
> frought with errors.
>
> Those two methods of file releases (lots of data and deletion of old
> data) appear to be incompatible with the system that google has set
> up. So to get this out of the way before even entertaining the
> possibility of using google's googlecode service, are those two issues
> insurmountable?
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