On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Matt Fowles wrote:

> All~
> 
> On 2/17/06, jesse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 08:38:26AM -0800, Robert Spier wrote:
> > > > snapshots or releases.  And, since a checkout takes about an hour (last
> > > > time I checked) I tend to be too lazy to fetch one just to make a patch.
> > >
> > > Only if you're checking out to a Commodore 64.
> >
> > Or possibly hand-transcribing the bits.
> 
> I could check it out over iridium dial up...

Sigh.  I wish it were that simple, or that funny.

$ time wget http://cvs.perl.org/snapshots/parrot/parrot-latest.tar.gz

real    0m16.84s
user    0m0.09s
sys     0m0.20s

$ time svn co http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot-trunk

real  2:01:50.3
user     1:02.0
sys        44.9

It's something specific to svn.  No, I don't know what.

-- 
    Andy Dougherty              [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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