Greg's Travis CI repo has a branch for using Travises cache, so that each project would only download Racket once (per release). I don't know what its state is though? It seems like that would be idea if it works.
https://github.com/greghendershott/travis-racket/tree/use-cache On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:45 PM Matthew Butterick <m...@mbtype.com> wrote: > OK, good to know. I will either switch to mirror.racket-lang.org or host > the necessary installers on my own server. > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@cs.indiana.edu> > wrote: > >> Right now, Greg's script uses download.racket-lang.org, which is >> hosted on Amazon S3, and thus downloads cost (a small amount of) >> money. If you download from `mirror.racket-lang.org`, which is hosted >> at Northeastern, we're not charged for bandwidth. That's why those are >> the links you get by default on the web page. Similarly, the snapshot >> sites at Northwestern and Utah don't charge us for bandwidth. >> >> Sam > > >> >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Matthew Butterick <m...@mbtype.com> wrote: >> > Should I be concerned about Travis CI's consumption of PLT bandwidth? >> Assuming the answer is yes, then question #2: what should I do about it? >> > >> > I just set up Travis CI on some of my Github projects (thanks Greg >> Hendershott for the Racket configuration script). IIUC every Travis build >> requires downloading Racket, and moreover, downloading Racket imposes >> bandwidth costs on PLT. So my use of Travis potentially consumes a lot of >> PLT's bandwidth for no benefit to PLT (aside from the usual refracted >> glory). >> > >> > I'd like to use Travis more (= build against more versions of Racket) >> but I don't want to be casual about the resource consumption. For instance, >> would there be an appopriate monthly fee to remit to PLT for this? >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Racket Users" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
