On Tue, 3 May 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
My primary desire is to avoid having to download several Meg of tar ball(s) in order to add a module to an existing server ... if that can be accomplished, then my main objection to adding things to the core CVS are eliminated ...
I guess I don't see the problem of the PostgreSQL distribution being 11 megs, heck even 50 megs. I know that some places don't have the bandwidth we do but it only takes me about 90 seconds to download the distribution.
Granted, "we in the West" are lucky ... but I know alot of ppl still on dialup, and I believe there are still alot of places in Europe (or is/was it just GB?) that pay per byte for their bandwidth ... even myself, at home, on a cable modem, have at times found downloads to be atrociously slow due to load n the network ...
If anyone knows a *good* source for this sort of thing, please send me a URL, but a quick search on google finds:
"The market share for permanent connections continued to increase in December and now accounts for 39.4 per cent of all connections. This compares with a market share of 21.9 per cent a year before."
http://www.i10.org.uk/pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_136457
Which, to me, indicates that ~60.6% of all connections are still dial-up (does ISDN count as a permanent connection?) ... but, I don't know where they are getting their #s from, so, as I said, if someone else can point me to better stats, please do ...
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