On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > On 06/22/2014 02:04 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: >>> On 06/22/2014 10:40 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> And if I put a complete distribution into the repository as intended, >>>> we could probably set the time limit to a few days ;) >>> >>> GitHub is then fine. >> >> No, it's not. They'll kick us out once we start putting gigabytes of >> binaries on their site. > > I understand their position. Huge binaries in GitHub would make them > something different than a git hosting provider. > > BTW, what is the problem of distributing the huge binaries on CTAN?
None (other than CTAN mirrors generating more traffic if they had to sync *too much*). Except that it wouldn't really help us to have anything on the CTAN mirrors if CTAN mirrors aren't set up to serve as rsync and git servers. >>>> http://github.com/contextgarden/context >>> >>> Sorry, I overlooked that this was ConTeXt. >> >> You couldn't have know it. I have put the repository there after you >> asked. And there was not any description there earlier. > > I thought I hadn’t read a description, but I tend not to trust my memory > too much ;-). > > If you allow me a suggestion for GitHub I’d remove the issue tracker on > both repositories. Thank you for the suggestion, done. I already had to explain people that I'm unable to accept pull requests (even though that was for a different mirror). I would have done it earlier, but I forgot about it. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
