[31752] distfiles

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 5, 2007, at 19:17, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Dec 5, 2007, at 16:47, takanori at macports.org wrote:
>>> Revision: 31752
>>>           http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/ 
>>> 31752
>>> Author:   takanori at macports.org
>>> Date:     2007-12-05 14:46:57 -0800 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007)
>>>
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> Add distfile for octave.
>>>
>>> Added Paths:
>>> -----------
>>>     distfiles/octave/
>>>     distfiles/octave/octave-2.9.15.tar.bz2
>> Why? Just to have an http mirror? Because it's still on the octave  
>> ftp server, and they've got releases back to 2.9.0, so I don't  
>> think they're going to remove it any time soon.
>
> Some corporations that I know of do not allow any outgoing FTP, so  
> having an HTTP mirror available is good.

Right. I was just asking if having an http mirror was the only reason.

I'm just very wary of having distfiles in our repository at all. They  
take up so phenomenally more more space than any code we would ever  
write, and they can "never" be removed from the repository, so I  
think we should all think at least 5 times before adding distfiles to  
the repository.